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5 Jamaat men put on 10-day remand

2016-01-04

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court yesterday granted 10-day remand for each of the five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , held on Saturday with Tk1.47 crore, in two separate cases. Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yusuf Hossain passed the order after Md Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Rampura police, produced them before it seeking a 20-day remand. The court also rejected their bail petitions. The remanded are Gias Uddin, Aminur Rahman, Osman Gani, Lutfur Rahman and Shahadatur Rahman Sohel. Rampura police locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! them in a drive with Tk1.47 crore from a house in the city's Banasree area on Saturday. Later, Sub-Inspector Mostafizur Rahman filed two separate cases -- one under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the other under the Anti-Money Laundering Act.

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12 militants arrested in Chittagong

2015-02-21

[Dhaka Tribune] Twelve suspected gunnies -- who the RAB described as "digital bully boys" - were placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Thursday from Chittagong's Hathazari, where they were receiving bully boy training at a coaching centre. Aged between 18 and 25, the arrestees all possessed multimedia mobile phones and micro-SD memory cards which contained audio-visual clips from different international and domestic bully boy outfits. When a RAB 7 team made the arrests, three alleged trainers were tutoring nine bully boy apprentices in an establishment that posed as an Arabic literature and language coaching centre. The RAB termed the men "digital bully boys," and claimed that the detainees were set to complete a 45-day audio-visual militancy training before being shifted to a different site for arms training. Lt Col Mifta Uddin, commanding officer of RAB 7, said the team acted on a tip-off and carried out a two-and-a-half-hour raid to initially detain 25 people from Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar, situated on the third floor of SK Safina Bhaban at the upazila's Alipur Area. "Later, we found 12 of the detainees were connected to bully boy activities through digital ways. They were handed over to Hathazari cop shoppe and a case was lodged in this regard," he said. Lt Col Mifta added that the bully boys' internal communications were being run using social media -- mainly via Facebook. "However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the law enforcers are trying to find out their links with other bully boy organizations and their secret activities as their operations seem dangerous for national security," he said. The RAB would now recommend the police to interrogate the accused under the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) Cell in order to seek out the criminal masterminds behind the entire operation, Lt Col Mifta added. Sources inside the elite force told the Dhaka Tribune that mobile phones, computers, tablet computers and other electronic tools were also seized during the raid. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... details about inter-communication among bandidos hard boyz could not be found as the detainees reportedly deleted all internet chats and call records after each individual communication. The madrasa-like coaching centre was run by Mohammad Fattah -- who is currently on the run. The elite force were conducing drives to arrest Fattah and his other cohorts, the RAB 7 commanding officer told a presser at the force's headquarters in the port city yesterday. RAB 7 Chandgaon Camp Commander Major Jahangir Alam said: "The trainers used to brainwash the students by presenting them video clips of training and operational activities of international bully boy groups -- ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... , Hezbollah, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and some others -- and domestic bully boy group like Ansarullah Bangla Team and others." The trainees were also taught the ways of Jihad through presentations about examples of discrimination and torture against Moslem communities across the world, Major Jahangir added. Those arrested during Thursday's raid are: Abdur Rahman Ibn Asadullah, 23; Osman Gani, 20; Mostakim Billah Mashrur, 21; Nabil Hossain, 19; Sirajul Mostafa Solaiman, 19; Shamim Hossain Ismail, 18; Mahmudul Hasan, 22; Mohammad Yusuf, 23; Shafiqul Islam Shiekh Salauddin, 19; Rafiqul Islam Jubaer, 19; Abdul Kaiyum Sheikh Mansur Islam, 18; and Harunur Rashid, 19.

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'71 killing case against Nizami, Mojahid sent to crimes tribunal

2010-07-23

The mills of God grind slowly in Bangladesh (unless the Rab is involved), but they grind exceeding small. A Dhaka court yesterday sent to the International Crimes Tribunal a case filed against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven others for killing freedom fighters in 1971. Senior Judicial Magistrate Taibul Hassan passed the order after Officer-in-Charge of Keraniganj police station Mohammad Asaduzzaman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a petition before it seeking an order to transfer the case to the International Crimes Tribunal. Other accused are two assistant secretaries general of Jamaat Mohammad Abdul Quader Molla and Muhammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, and Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were Al-badr, Razakar and Al-shams activists during the war. Earlier on Wednesday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AKM Enamul Haque sent another case to the International Crimes Tribunal filed with Pallabi police station for killing 345 people during the country's Liberation War in 1971. On December 17 of 2008, Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka District Muktijoddha Unit commander, filed the case with Keraniganj police station accusing Nizami, Mojahid and seven others for killing his nephew and one of his comrades on November 25, 1971. In yesterday's petition, Asaduzzaman said, the case is now treatable under the International Crimes Tribunal as it was filed for killing freedom fighters and other people during the Liberation War in 1971. So, the case should be transferred to the tribunal for its next course of action. The complainant said on November 25 of 1971, the accused hacked Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa to death when they went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives. PALLABI CASE On January 25 of 2008, Mohammad Amir Hossain Mollah, a wounded FF and resident of Pallabi's Duaripara, filed the case with Pallabi police station accusing Nizami, Mojahid, five of their party men and three non-Bangalees for the massacre of 345 people during the Liberation War. The other accused Quader Molla, Kamaruzzaman, Jamaat central leader and former Islami Chhatra Sangha president Sardar Abdul Salam and activist Khawza Ashim (now deceased), and Akhter 'Gunda', Newaz and Doma (non-Bangalees who later fled to Pakistan). The complainant stated that the Jamaat men killed them in city's Mirpur area. The victims included 21 of his relatives, one colleague, 43 Mirpur residents and 280 others from different areas of the country on April 24 and December 18 in 1971.

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Court seeks probe report on Nizami, Mojahid by August 2

2010-07-05

[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday directed Keraniganj police to submit the probe report by August 2 in a case filed against Jamaat top brass Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven others for killing two freedom fighters during the 1971 Liberation War. Senior Judicial Magistrate Taiyabul Hasan passed the order as Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Asaduzzaman of Keraniganj Police Station, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, failed to submit the report by yesterday. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami was produced before the court yesterday on schedule. Nizami Jamaat Secretary General Mojahid and its Nayeb-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee were arrested on June 29 after a Dhaka court ordered their arrest on charges of hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims. Later on June 30, Nizami and Mojahid were shown arrested in the case. On December 17 of 2007, Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case against Nizami, Mojahid and seven others for killing two freedom fighters--Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali--on November 25 in 1971. Other accused in the case are two assistant secretary generals of Jamaat Mohammad Abdul Quader Mollah and Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were Al-Badr, Razakar and Al-Shams activists during the war. The plaintiff said when the nation was on the threshold of victory on November 24 in 1971, his nephew Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives. Next day the Al-Shams and Al-Badr militias, dressed in grey, surrounded their houses and hacked them to death at about 8:30am in the morning.

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RMP lists 54 Jamaat, Shibir men for arrest

2010-02-16

[Bangla Daily Star] Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) prepared a list of 54 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associated organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir for their arrest in connection with the Rajshahi University violence that killed a worker of Bangladesh Chhatra League. Meanwhile, police arrested at least 33 activists of Jamaat and Shibir from Rajshahi and Satkhira on Sunday night and yesterday during the ongoing drive, which began following the RU violence. Police are also taking preparation to bring sedition charges against 31 Shibir men who were arrested in Uttara in the capital on February 11. RMP sources said the list was prepared Sunday night on the basis of information given by the Rajshahi city Jamaat Ameer Ataur Rahman and other Jamaat and Shibir activists, who were taken on a five-day remand on February 12, and the injured RU students. The names of RU unit Shibir president Shamsul Alam Golap and general secretary Mobarok Hossain are included in the list, which has already been sent to all police stations across the country. Sources said Motihar and Boalia police arrested 11 activists of Jamaat and Shibir from different parts of Rajshahi city yesterday in connection with the Rajshahi University (RU) violence that killed a worker of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). However, the police at the end of five-day remand produced 28 Shibir leaders and activists before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ruhul Amin. The court granted another five-day remand for Hasmat Ali Liton, president of Abdul Latif hall unit Shibir, and sent other 27 Shibir men to jail custody. In Satkhira, police in a drive arrested some 22 workers of Jamaat and Shibir from the town Sunday night. MA Hashem Khan, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station in Satkhira, told The Daily Star that they raided different hostels and messes in the town and arrested 22 activists. The arrestees were sent to jail hajat. Police arrested the activists apprehending that they might conduct any subversive activities, the OC said. In Chittagong, the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Osman Gani yesterday granted a two-day remand against 19 out of 24 Shibir activists who were detained on Chittagong University campus early Saturday. However, the court rejected the remand prayer against four others when police sought a seven-day remand for 23 of them. SEDITION CHARGE Uttara zone deputy commissioner (DC) Nisarul Arif told The Daily Star yesterday they have already found evidences that indicate the Shibir men were involved in anti-state activities. "We have seized some leaflets, posters and CDs containing provocative statement against the state and the government from their possession", the DC said. Police will seek permission from the home ministry for filing a sedition case against them, the DC added. Uttara police said during the three-day remand, the detained Shibir cadres also disclosed different information about their plans and activities.

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3 robbers beaten to death in Brahmanbaria

2010-01-16

[Bangla Daily Star] Three robbers were beaten to death by mob at Bitghar village of Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbaria while they were taking preparation to commit a robbery early yesterday. The dead were identified as Tiger Samad alias Saimma, 36, of Kaitala village under Nabinagar upazila, and Ellias and Mafiz alias Aziz of Chittagong. Villagers and police sources said a gang of robbers led by Tiger Samad, accused in 12 cases, gathered at a house of Kaitala village with their guns to commit a robbery on the night. Nabinagar police later went to the spot after nearby people informed them about the matter. Sensing danger, the robbers fired five rounds of bullet at police prompting the law enforcers to fire 13 blank shots. Local people later chased the gang members who were fleeing from the scene after the exchange of gunfire. The mob caught three of the robbers from nearby Bitghar village and gave them a good beating, killing them on the spot around 2:00am. Police recovered a local gun (LG) and nine rounds of bullet from the scene and arrested a female robber. The bodies were sent to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital for autopsy. Additional Superintendent of Police Md Osman Gani confirmed the incident. Police have been deployed in the area to control the situation.

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Liakat refuses to give statement to magistrate

2009-06-09

[Bangla Daily Star] Former NSI official Major (retd) Liakat Hossain refused to give a statement to a Chittagong magistrate yesterday, though he had earlier disclosed to interrogators vital information regarding the arms and ammunition seizures in Chittagong and Bogra. An accused in the much talked-about Chittagong arms haul case, he was taken to Metropolitan Magistrate Osman Gani's chamber at around 3:30pm. But after around 25 minutes, he decided not to say anything under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, reported our office in the port city. In interrogations a few days before, Liakat said either or both of ex-NSI director general Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim and ex-director Wing Commander (retd) Sahab Uddin had links to the 10 truckloads of arms seized in Chittagong in 2004, sources close to the Task Force Interrogation (TFI) cell told the Daily Star. About the ammo recovery at Kahalu in Bogra in 2003, he said the shipment was meant for ULFA, an insurgent group in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, and being carried through Bangladesh from one place to another in India. He also said Sahab Uddin had good relations with ULFA and Pakistan intelligence agency. Meanwhile, Major General (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury, another former DG of National Security Intelligence (NSI), told interrogators that as DGFI director then his understanding was that the ammunition and explosives seized at Kahalu belonged to an Indian insurgent group. He said the group was using the Bangladesh territory to have the consignment shipped from one part of India to another. Rezzaqul also said he does not know if the four ULFA members and their Bangladeshi accomplice arrested in this connection were grilled by the joint interrogation cell (JIC) at the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Liakat on the other hand claimed all the arrestees were quizzed at the JIC. Of the five, Altu Mian, the Bangladesh national, was arrested after his name was found in a prescription left at the scene. Following up information gleaned from him, the four ULFA operatives were arrested at Jhenigati in Sherpur district and in another place [unspecified]. The arrestees told the investigators that they had received the ammunition and explosives at Bethchhari border point in Sylhet. Liakat, ex-NSI deputy director (technical), said that after he had returned to Dhaka office from Bogra, a tense Sahab wanted to know the identity of the arrestees. The arms hauls began to hog the headlines again after Sahab last month gave a confessional statement linking former NSI chiefs Rahim and Rezzaqul to the deadly consignment seized at the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Company Limited five years back.

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NSI officer remanded

2009-04-27

[Bangla Daily Star] A Chittagong court yesterday placed National Security Intelligence (NSI) field-level officer Akbar Hossain Khan on a seven-day fresh remand in a case filed in connection with the sensational Chittagong arms haul. The Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Osman Gani granted the remand following a petition submitted by the investigation officer of the arms case Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Assistant Superintendent of Police Muniruzzaman for a 10-day fresh remand. The investigation officer made the petition on April 23 and the hearing was held yesterday. The prayer for fresh remand was made as the investigators failed to glean any remarkable information from Akbar during his two-day remand that ended on April 21. Earlier, the owner and manager of transport agency Greenways identified Akbar as the person who hired seven trucks and a crane from them. Those vehicles were used for the transportation of the huge firearms and ammunition hauled at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd jetty on April 2, 2004. "The NSI officer did not provide any information, during the two-day remand, about who instructed him to hire the trucks and the crane," Muniruzzaman said. On April 23, two more witnesses gave statements under Section-164 of CrPC indicating that Akbar was the person who hired the seven trucks and the crane from Greenways. Sheikh Ahmed, a Kodomtali-based transport broker, and Salim Ullah, an accountant of Greenways were the two witnesses.

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4-party bigwigs were in on Chittagong arms plot, accused say

2009-03-05

The process of 2004 botched attempt to transport 10-truck load of arms and ammunition to the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) started in late 2001, involving some big time political honchos of the last four-party government, according to confessional statements of two persons accused in the Chittagong arms haul case. The two accused -- Md Hafizur Rahman and Din Mohammad -- also said on Monday afternoon that the huge cache of weapons was being smuggled under the direct supervision of Ulfa leader Paresh Barua, who was residing in Dhaka back then. Ministries for home and industries under the 4-party government, some high officials of intelligence agencies concerned, and the coast guard were well aware of the smuggling which also involved a former Jatiya Party MP, and a film director, the accused two said in the confessional statements to the Metropolitan Magistrate Md Osman Gani.

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2 accused give confessional statements

2009-03-03

Two prime accused of a case filed in connection with the sensational Chittagong arms haul gave confessional statements before a Chittagong court yesterday. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Md Osman Gani started recording the confessional statements of the accused--Hafizur Rahman and Din Mohammad--under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) around 2:00pm. It took around two-and-half-hours to record the 10-page statement of Hafizur Rahman and two-page statement of Din Mohammad. Sources said the accused provided new and important information regarding the haul of 10 truck-loads of weapons at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd jetty on April 2, 2004. However, the contents of their confessional statements could not be known. Tight security was maintained at the court while their statements were being recorded. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had taken the two on remand in two phases.

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Nizami, Mojaheed sued for killing 2 freedom fighters

2007-12-18

A freedom fighter yesterday accused Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and seven of their party men of killing two freedom fighters during the liberation war. Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case, stating that the Jamaat men killed his nephew Osman Gani and fellow freedom fighter Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali on November 25 in 1971. Meantime, another Dhaka court will give order today on whether to approve of registering a sedition case against Mojaheed, Abdul Quader Mollah and Shah Mohammad Hannan, former chairman of Islami Bank, as a regular one. On December 5, freedom fighter Fazlur Rahman filed the sedition case with Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for the three men's anti-liberation activities. Recording the statement of Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Judicial Magistrate Ashiqul Khabir directed officer-in-charge at Keraniganj Police Station to register the double murder as a first information report. The court also asked the OC to take action against the accused after investigation into the matter. Mozaffar showed eight people, including himself and the victims' parents, as witnesses in the case. Other accused are two assistant secretary generals of the Jamaat, Mohammad Abdul Quader Mollah and Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, and Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were al-Badr, Razakar and al-Shams activists during the war. Complainant Mozaffar said sixty to seventy other unknown activists of the three militias took part in killing, torching and looting valuables in Keraniganj on the day. He mentioned that the accused formed collaborating forces like Razakar, al-Badr and al-Shams during the liberation war with a view to exterminating the Bangali nation. Nizami was made al-Badr commander of Pakistan while Mojaheed acted as commander of its East Pakistan wing, said the complainant adding that Quader and Quamruzzaman and their other accomplices also formed the higher rung of al-Badr. The three militias took to indiscriminate killing of freedom fighters and intellectuals on orders from Nizami, Mojaheed, Quader and Quamruzzaman, he said. On directives from the four, the other accused killed countless people in Keraniganj and torched their houses. They also raped women in the area. The plaintiff said on November 24 in 1971, when the nation was on the threshold of victory, his nephew Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives. The next day al-Shams and al-Badr militias, dressed in grey, surrounded their houses and hacked them to death with sharp weapons at about 8:30am, Mozaffar said adding that he went to the spot with his force on information only to find that the four Jamaat leaders had sent in Pakistani force there who, along with their local collaborators, torched hundreds of houses and killed countless people in the area. The two victims are state-acknowledged freedom fighters for which their families now get government allowances. The victims' families never got justice even though they went door to door for justice, he said adding that the accused were behind bars till 1975 but walked out of prison after the annulment of Collaborators Act in December 31, 1975. The complainant said as the subsequent governments ran their regimes with the assistance of al-Badr, al-Shams and Razakar, the families did not get justice from them. Advocates Abu Mohammad Abdur Razzak and Ashraful Islam appeared for the complainant. Meantime, Fazlur Rahman's sedition case statement mentioned that Mojaheed, who was social welfare minister during the four-party coalition government of the BNP, denied his party's anti-liberation role on October 25 this year and also claimed that anti-liberation forces never existed in the country. On the next day, Hannan termed the liberation war a 'civil war' in a private satellite television talk show and made derogatory remarks about it. Quader Mollah at a discussion on October 31 said freedom fighters joined the liberation war to have beautiful Indian women and for grabbing Hindu property. Three criminal cases were filed against Quader with a Madaripur court for his derogative remarks.

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Muslims seethe over article in Indian Communist Magazine; Issue banned in Bengal

2007-11-09

KOLKATA: An unsigned article published in a Left-sponsored Bengali magazine has prompted the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government to ban its autumn number. This despite the fact that it includes an article by Left Front chairman Biman Bose and a couple of front-ranking CPM leaders such as former school education minister Kanti Biswas and MLA Deblina Hembram. There is also an article by Sudhir Mridha in defence of the chief minister's industrialisation programme. This apart, two CPM ministers — Subhas Chakraborty and Debesh Das — have wished all success to the magazine: Pathasanket 1414. The controversial article, Taslima Prasange Bangladesher Bharatiya Rashtradut, Pradhan Mantri O Moulabadider Prasange, makes out a case for writer Taslima Nasreen, who has come under fire from religious fundamentalists and Bangladesh government that has banished her from her homeland. The article argues that Taslima's hitting out at fundamentalist sentiments from scientific outlook cannot be treated as an offence under Section 295(3) of the Bangladesh Criminal Procedure Code. While doing so, the article takes out a leaf from Osman Gani's book Mahamanabi to establish how blind some of the episodes related to the life of Prophet Mohammed are. Whatever the logic, the writer makes a vitriolic attack on the Prophet over his marital life, sending shock waves among the Muslim community. A copy of the article also reached the corridors of power and the government acted promptly on grounds that it contains all the elements that might be construed as an assault on Islam. The writer probably anticipated all this, which is why he made a passing reference to the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who was put behind the bars at a ripe age because he refuted the Church's view that the sun moves round the earth. Idris Ali of the All India Minority Forum took strong exception to the article. "I am amazed at the audacity of the writer. How dare he write such things against the Prophet? I also can't understand how such an outrageous piece could come out in a magazine sponsored by senior Left leaders and ministers," Ali said. He, however, welcomed the government's decision to ban the autumn issue of the magazine, but said hundreds of copies have already reached the readers. "The government has to seize all the copies."

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