The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chattogram for tomorrow (November 5) to protest the arrest and remand of BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.

Ambulances, fire trucks and vehicles carrying newspapers and journalists will remain out of the purview of the hartal, BNP press release said. 

Moreover, the two-day countrywide blockade called by BNP on Sunday and Monday will also continue simultaneously in the port city.

Earlier, the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury from a house in Gulshan of the capital on Friday (November 3) night.

Later on the day, a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court placed Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on six-day remand in a case lodged over murder of police constable Amirul Islam Pervej on October 28.

Constable Pervej, was brutally killed allegedly by the leaders and activists of BNP during their grand rally in capital's Naya Paltan area on October 28.

BDST: 1439 HRS, NOV 4, 2023
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