BD detains 11 Hizbut Tahrir members

DHAKA: Bangladesh police detained 11 members of a banned group, including three university teachers, on suspicion of plotting subversive acts against the country, an officer said on Friday.

The members of the Hizbut Tahrir were planning to address a news conference on Thursday night in the northern town of Rajshahi when they were picked up. “They were carrying leaflets calling for Bangladesh to be made into a sharia-based Islamic state,” he said. Rajshahi, 350 km north of the capital Dhaka where the latest arrests were made, is considered a breeding ground of militancy. The leaders of the two biggest Islamic groups, Jammat-ul-Mujahideen and Jagrata Muslim Janata, blamed for a wave of bombings in 2005, were arrested and executed in March 2007. Police say remnants of the two groups, along with militants from other organisations like the Harkatul Jihad and Hizbut Tahrir are regrouping and may launch fresh attacks ahead of national election planned for December

Source : dailytimes.com

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