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Police pick seven Arabic speaking foreigners in Dhaka
Dhaka, Sept 25: A city court here has remanded to police custody seven Arabic speaking foreigners accused of having links with international terrorist organisations after they were arrested by the police early this week.
Dhaka, Sept 25: A city court here has remanded to police custody seven Arabic speaking foreigners accused of having links with international terrorist organisations after
they were arrested by the police early this week.
The court yesterday remanded four Yemenese and one each from Algeria, Sudan and Libya, to five days of police remand, media reports said. They were arrested in Dhaka on Monday night following a raid of several houses in Uttara area and were booked for having connections with an Islamic NGO, which allegedly picked up children for Islamic education and trafficked in them, police sources said.
Earlier police had seized eight computers and several documents from the office of the NGO, Al-Harmine Islamic Institute, saying although it claimed to be an NGO, its activities were not transparent. Hundreds of children, mostly those from poor families, were smuggled out every year through various organisations and individuals, the reports said, adding while most of the girls among them end up in brothels, boys turn to crime.
Bureau Report
The court yesterday remanded four Yemenese and one each from Algeria, Sudan and Libya, to five days of police remand, media reports said. They were arrested in Dhaka on Monday night following a raid of several houses in Uttara area and were booked for having connections with an Islamic NGO, which allegedly picked up children for Islamic education and trafficked in them, police sources said.
Earlier police had seized eight computers and several documents from the office of the NGO, Al-Harmine Islamic Institute, saying although it claimed to be an NGO, its activities were not transparent. Hundreds of children, mostly those from poor families, were smuggled out every year through various organisations and individuals, the reports said, adding while most of the girls among them end up in brothels, boys turn to crime.
Bureau Report