DHAKA: Bangladesh police said on Monday (Nov 25) they had arrested an outspoken Hindu monk who had been leading protests calling for the protection of the minority in the mainly Muslim nation.
DHAKA: Bangladesh police said on Monday they had arrested an outspoken Hindu monk who had been leading protests calling for the protection of the minority in the mainly Muslim nation.
Religious relations have been turbulent in the South Asian nation of 170 million people since a student-led August revolutionIn the immediate chaotic days following Hasina's ouster, there was a string of reprisals on Hindus – seen by some as disproportionate supporters of her regime – as well as attacks on Muslim Sufi shrines by Islamist hardliners.
"We are not aware of the charges brought against him," the committee member Proshanto Kumar Haldar told AFP, saying the group would stage rallies demanding he be released.Bangladesh's Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, which supports religious minorities, condemned the arrest of Brahmachari.
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