Three coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, including Nahid Islam, have been taken into custody for their own safety, the chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Harunor Rashid has said.
"We brought Nahid Islam, chief coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement, and two other coordinators Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder on Friday night. They were talking about how insecure they feel in different places, including Facebook. We think, as a law enforcement agency, that if anyone complains of insecurity anywhere, it is our responsibility to provide them security. That's what we're doing with them,” he said.
Additional Commissioner of DB Harunor Rashid made the comment at a press briefing at the DB headquarters in the capital’s Minto Road on Saturday.
DB officials took Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder into their custody from the capital's Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital on Friday afternoon.
Earlier, Nahid Islam’s father, Badrul Alam, and several witnesses told Dhaka Tribune that some plainclothes individuals from law enforcement agencies picked up Nahid and Asif from Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital around 4pm on Friday.
“Some people in plain clothes from the country’s law enforcement agencies picked up them from the hospital. The hospital has been barricaded by law enforcement since the morning,” Badrul Alam said.
Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud had earlier alleged that they were abducted and tortured.
