The police on Wednesday prevented Islami Oikkya Jote chairman Fazlul Haq Amini from joining a conference of Islamic Morcha at the National Press Club.
IOJ publicity secretary Ahalullah Wasel told New Age that the police, which cordoned off Amini's residence at Lalbagh, prevented him from leaving the house.
He said that the police asked the Amini not to leave the house.
He said that the police told Amini that they were doing everything on orders from high ups.
Wasel said, when Amini wanted to know why they were preventing him from leaving his house, the police told him they were acting on orders from high ups.
Amini was scheduled to join the representatives' conference of Islamic Morcha at press club at 10 AM.
The police later allowed him to go to the IOJ office at Lalbagh, he said.
Lalbagh police station officer-in-charge Azizul Haque said that the police did not allow Amini to join the Islamic Morcha conference for his own security.
'We did not allow him to join the programme on security grounds as he had filed a general diary with the police station requesting for ensuring security of his family members,' he said.
Witnesses said that a large police contingent, deployed at Amini's residence at 9 AM, asked him not to leave the house.
IOJ is a component of Islamic Law Implementation Committee which announced countrywide demonstrations for May 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, and 22 in divisional cities and on May 27 in the capital to oppose the government's policies on women's development and education.
Source: New Age
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