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Charges pressed against owners of Apan Jewellers in money laundering cases
Customs officials during a raid at the Mouchak Market outlet of Apan Jewellers. Several outlets of the jewellery brand in Dhaka were raided after the owner s son was accused in the Banani rape case. Star file photo Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Customs Intelligence has pressed charges against owners of Apan Jewellers Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed in connection with two money laundering cases.
Investigation Officer Arif Hossain, also Assistant Revenue Officer of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department (CIID) on March 3 submitted two separate charge sheets against the brothers to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka, court sources said today.
Cartoonist Kishore freed from jail
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who was in prison for 10 months in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA), was released from Kashinpur Central Jail-2 on Thursday.
He went out of the jail around 12:25pm, the jail super Abdul Jalil confirmed.
The necessary documents reached the jail at 11am. And after scrutinising the papers, he was released, Abdul Jalil added.
His family members were waiting at the jail gate for him.
On Wednesday, the High Court granted six months’ bail to cartoonist Kishore in the DSA case.
Earlier on January 13, Ramna police filed a chargesheet against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, ‘Rashtrachinta’ member Didarul Bhuiyan and writer Mushtaq Ahmed (died recently in jail) in the case.
If you come close to me you will smell the pus.
This was the first statement by Ahmed Kabir Kishore to this correspondent. He was released from Kashimpur Central Jail-2, on bail, around 12:20pm mere hours back. The cartoonist had spent 10 months in prison for the crime of drawing cartoons, prosecuted under the Digital Security Act.
Kishore turned his head to show an oozing ear canal, before rolling up his jeans to show numerous scars on his leg. The scar tissue shone mottled, scaly and white against his wiry dark legs. The 10 months in prison has rendered him absolutely skeletal, his glassy eyes sunk deep.
Bangladesh: Death in detention of Mushtaq Ahmed and release on bail of Ahmed Kabir Kishore
03/03/2021
Death in detention /
March 3, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh. Description of the situation:
Mushtaq Ahmed and the release on bail of cartoonist Mr.
Ahmed Kabir Kishore. The two had been held in pre-trial detention for ten months for their criticism of the authorities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On February 25, 2021, Mushtaq Ahmed was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital, where he had been transferred from the Kashimpur Jail. At the time of publication of this urgent appeal, the circumstances surrounding his death remain unknown.