A Dhaka court on Sunday framed charges against four detained bloggers in two cases for their alleged involvement in posting derogatory content about Islam and its prophet on the internet.
The indicted bloggers are Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, Mashiur Rahman Biplob, Russel Parvez and Asif Mohiuddin.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jahrul Hoque passed the order.
The court also fixed November 6 for the opening statement of the prosecution and the commencement of the trial.
Two separate non-First Information Report (FIR) cases were filed against the four bloggers under Section 57(2) of the Information Communication Technology Act 2006.
On April 2, Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Moshiur, Russel and Subrata under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for "hurting religious sentiments" with their "derogatory" postings on blogs and social networking sites.
Earlier on October 1, 2011, DB police detained Asif for 18 hours and released him on the condition that he would stop blogging.