BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has been released after an hour he was picked up by police.
He was released at about 3:15pm on Tuesday (January 30).
Confirming the matter, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)`s Uttara Zone`s additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Mirza Salahuddin said police released Moyeen Khan. He was neither detained nor arrested. He was picked up from a procession for "his own safety." Now, he is going to home.
Earlier, police picked Moyeen Khan up from from a black flag procession at Sector 12 in Uttara of the capital on Tuesday (January 30).
BNP Chairperson`s press wing member Shyrul Kabir Khan said police picked Moyeen Khan from the Dhaka City North (Zone-2) BNP`s black flag procession which was brought out in protest against price hike of essentials, release of all political prisoners including Khaleda Zia, withdrawal of false cases and dissolving `illegal` parliament etc.
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