BSS-37 Online newspaper editor held over publishing anti-state news

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Online newspaper editor held over publishing anti-state news

DHAKA, Dec 9 2018 (BSS) – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today arrested
acting editor of an obscure online daily newspaper on charge of publishing
false, fabricated and anti-state news in the social networking sites from the
city’s Ramna area.

“We arrested Shaikh Riad Mohammad Noor, acting editor of an online
newspaper Daily 71.com from his own flat at Segunbagicha under Ramna Police
Station around 1.30am today,” said a RAB-3 official.

RAB has found evidence against the arrestee of publishing anti-state,
false and fabricated news, particularly distorting the history of Liberation
War of 1971 and conducting propaganda against Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he also said.

Legal action was taken against the arrestee.

BSS/PR/AHJ/IJ/1900 hrs