Sami, 6 Others Indicted in DSA Case

A special tribunal here today framed charges against seven people including Zulkarnain Shayer Khan alias Sami, who appeared on an allegedly false and politically motivated documentary of Al Jazeera last year, in a case lodged under Digital Security Act (DSA).

Judge Ash Shams Jaglul Hossain of Bangladesh Cyber Tribunal passed the order and set April 7 for start recording depositions of the witnesses.

The other accused in the case are- cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, Rashtrachinta coordinator Didarul Bhuiyan, former director of Dhaka Stock Exchange Minhaj Mannan, Netranews editor Tasnim Khalil, Ashik Imran and Swapan Wahid.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) on June 13, 2021, filed a charge-sheet against these seven and pleaded to drop names of other four accused writer Mushtak Ahmed, journalist Sahed Alam, blogger Asif Mohiuddin and Philip Shumakher from the case. Later the court accepted the charge-sheet and dropped the name of those four.

RAB filed the case against 11 persons on May 5, 2020, on the charges of spreading anti-state falsehood to tarnish the image of Bangladesh and create confusion from a Facebook page.