Shahidul Alam taken to BSMMU for treatment

Staff Correspondent: Following the High Court order, Drik Gallery Managing Director Shahidul Alam has been taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for medical treatment.

A team of Detective Branch took Shahidul to BSMMU around 9.30am on Wednesday.

On Tuesday,  the HC directed the authorities concerned of the government and police to immediately send the detained photographer to BSMMU for his treatment.

Shahidul Alam was picked up by plainclothes men on Sunday night and was placed on a seven-day remand by a Dhaka court on Monday in a case filed against him under the controversial Section 57 of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. He was also “tortured in police custody.”


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