Dhaka: Photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam has been picked up by the members Detective Branch of police from his house, reported the UNB.
He was detained on Sunday night, hours after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera about the current students' protests.
According to his friends and colleagues, the international award-winning Bangladeshi photographer, also the founder of DRIK, has been picked up from his house by over 20 men in “jeans and T-shirts” around 11pm on Sunday.
Quoting Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DB) Abdul Baten, news agency UNB reported that a team of DB police detained Shahidul from his Dhanmondi residence for quizzing him over his Facebook posts on the ongoing student protests.
