Three active members of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir, Bangladesh have been arrested in the capital’s Badda area on Friday afternoon.
The detainees are Azizur Rahman Nayan, 29, Andalib Rahman Rajon, 25, and Nazmul Huda.
Inspector MA Jalil, officer-in-charge of Badda police station told the Dhaka Tribune: “Police held the Hizb-ut-Tahrir members from near Hajipara Jam-e-Mosque after the Jumm'a prayer while they were distributing leaflets of the banned organisation among the devotees.”
The Bangladesh chapter of Hizb-ut-Tahrir was banned on October 22, 2010 for its anti-state subversive activities.
However, the banned outfit remains busy with circulating provocative leaflets continuously to "establish Khilafat".
Since the organisation has been banned, around 1000 activists have been arrested, however most of them are now out on bail.
Hizb-ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist political party founded in Jerusalem in 1953.