Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 988 Sun. March 11, 2007  
   
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2 journos arrested in Barisal


Editor of a local weekly Md Idris Ali and district correspondent of Bangla daily, the Jugantor, MA Muhit, were arrested and sent to jail here on Friday evening.

Sources said the two were arrested from Muhit's residence on Kashinath Road of the district.

Police said they were arrested under the State of Emergency Ordinance 2007.

Muhit's wife Shirin Akhtar told this correspondent that a supporter of one of the local leaders, against whom Muhit did corruption stories, filed a defamatory case against her husband a few days back.