Coffee shop owner arrested in Dhaka over social media remarks during safe road campaign

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a coffee shop owner on charges of making provocative remarks on the social media during the road safety movement.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 17 August 2018, 07:03 AM
Updated : 17 August 2018, 01:19 PM

Faria Mahjabin, 28, was arrested in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Thursday night, RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan told bdnews24.com.

She runs a coffee shop named Nerdy Bean Coffee Haus. She studied at the North Western University, according to the RAB.

Mahjabin was accused of spreading rumours, but the elite force did not disclose details on the case in which she was arrested.

Eight cases under the ICT Act have been filed with different police stations in Dhaka on charges of spreading rumours during the students’ protest for safe roads. In all these cases, 29 people have been accused in the cases.

Earlier, photographer-activist Shahidul Alam has been arrested for his social media posts and media comments while actress and model Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed for ‘spreading rumours’ on Facebook.

A student of BUET has also been arrested over ‘Facebook rumours’.

University students joined the protests launched by the students of schools and colleges after the deaths of two of their peers in a road crash in Dhaka on Jul 29, bringing the capital to a halt for more than a week.