10 Jamaat-Shibir men detained from Banani: Police

Police have detained 10 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists including its Banani Thana Committee Ameer Tajul Islam and Secretary Maulana Rafi.

The Jamaat men were detained at 9:30pm on Tuesday while they were holding a ‍‍`secret meeting‍‍` at Banani Wireless Gate Nawabi Restaurant, according to Banani Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mostafizur Rahman.

Jamaat has come up with fresh programmes that started in sync with the BNP‍‍`s movement. Jamaat took part in the first two programmers of the BNP‍‍`s simultaneous movement which began in December last year. After those, the parties went their own way.

After the US introduced a new visa policy on May 25, Jamaat seemed newly emboldened to come out of the shadows, and announced a program at Baitul Mukarram on June 5. That failed to garner the police‍‍`s permission. Then they announced another program at the same venue on June 10, for which they were holding out hope.