Adilur Rahman Khan, the secretary of human rights organisation Odhikar, said on Monday his struggle to defend human rights would continue even after all sorts of “persecution by the state.”
“The government brought charges against my organisation and me for publishing a report on the net that had cited 61 dead in a police drive against Hefajat men on May 5 and 6. We will prove our claim through the legal battle,” he said at the court premises.
The Dhaka Cyber Crime Tribunal Judge KM Shamsul Alam on Monday fixed November 10 for submission of the report of warrant execution.
Odikhar, in a report, claimed that 61 people were killed in the police drive against a Hefajat-e-Islam rally on May 5.
Detective police arrested Adilur on August 10. On October 8, a High Court bench granted him bail.
Police pressed charges against Adilur under Section 57(1) of the Information and Communication Technology Act 2006 and Section 505(c) of the Penal Code.
The case was transferred to the Cyber Crime Tribunal for trial on September 5, a day after DB Inspector Ashraful Islam submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court after investigation.
On September 11, the tribunal took cognisance of the charges against Adilur and Odhikar director AKM Nasiruddin Elan. On that day the court also issued a warrant for the arrest of Elan as the police showed him fugitive in the case.
The charges against Adilur and Elan include publishing false report and doctored photos on the death toll in the law enforcers’ action on the Hefajat-e-Islam men in the capital on May 5.
On August 11, police raided Odhkar’s office and found a list of the death toll from the computers that they seized from there.
