The cartoonist has been in jail following his arrest in a Digital Security case alongside writer Mushtaq, who died in prison on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A Dhaka court has rejected a remand petition for cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, one of the accused in the Digital Security Act case against late writer Mushtaq Ahmed.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order after Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua submitted an application before the court on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In the application, the lawyer informed the court that Kishore has been “inhumanely tortured” following his arrest last year, and said steps should be taken against those responsible for the torture.<\/p>\n
Kishore has been in jail for over nine months alongside Mushtaq, who died in custody on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On February 23, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police filed a petition seeking three-day remand for Writer Mushtaq Ahmed and Ahmed Kabir Kishore, just two days before the former\u2019s death in jail.<\/p>\n
On May 6 last year, Abu Bakar Siddique, assistant director of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 3, filed a case against 11 people, including Mushtaq Ahmed and Ahmed Kabir Kishore, with Ramna police station on charges of spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities.<\/p>\n
Kishore was arrested the same month.<\/p>\n
Earlier in March and April, his cartoons \u201cLife in the Time of Corona,\u201d satirizing the country\u2019s response to Covid-19, were posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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