Police Tuesday began questioning a writer charged with sedition after he accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's supporters of attacking minority Hindus in Bangladesh. Shahriar Kabir, also a human rights advocate, was taken into four-day police remand from the Dhaka Central Jail, a police official said on condition of anonymity. He refused to give details.
The penalty for sedition is life imprisonment.
A Dhaka magistrate Monday allowed the remand as part of the investigation into the sedition charges, said prosecution lawyer Abdullah Mahmud Hasan.
Kabir was first held on Nov. 22 after his return from a two-week visit to neighboring India, where he discussed with Indian human rights groups the alleged violence against minority Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. Bureau Report