Within two and a half hours of unblocking Facebook, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested a Facebook page administrator yesterday afternoon.
The arrestee was identified as Refayat Ahmed, 28, administrator of Facebook page Moja losss?
RAB arrested Refayat in Bashundhara residential area around 4:30pm, Major Rumman Mahmud, deputy director of the RAB legal and media wing, said.
The RAB officer said Refayat was arrested on charges of spreading propaganda against the government and the state, saying such propaganda was published on the Moja losss? page.
The RAB official said the arrestee would be handed over to Vatara police station.
State Minister for Telecommunications Tarana Halim on November 21 said that Facebook users who were accessing the platform by alternative means would be put under scrutiny.
