Famous Bangladesh actress Meher Afroz Sean: The police have arrested Dhaka on charges of treason. Afroz is the wife of famous Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed. According to local media, Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the actress from Dhanmandi area of the capital on Thursday evening. Afroz criticized the Muhammad Yunus rule and especially his press advisor on his Facebook page.
Additional Commissioner of Police Rezaul Karim Malik, Additional Detective Branch, said that he was arrested from Dhanmandi on Thursday night. He has been accused of treason and is being questioned. According to reports, she was criticizing the interim government of Bangladesh led by Mohammad Yunus. Meher Afroz Sean is not only a famous Bangladesh actress, but also a director, dancer and playback singer. Meher won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Singer for the film ‘Krishnopokkha’ in 2016.
Meher comes from a political family
Meher, who belongs to a political family, was arrested a few hours after his ancestral house in Jamalpur was attacked and set on fire. According to the report, students and local residents set fire to their ancestral house near Norundi railway station in Jamalpur at around 6 pm on Thursday evening. The house belonged to his father Engineer Mohammad Ali. Who sought nomination from Awami League in the last national elections. Her mother Begum Tehura Ali served in Parliament twice from the reserved women’s seat. The actress also contested from a reserved parliamentary seat as Awami League candidate in the last election.
The mob also set fire to Sheikh Hasina’s father’s house.
The incident came to light after an incident in Dhaka. Where on Wednesday, a mob vandalized the house of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder leader of Bangladesh and the father of the overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The crowd gathered at Dhanmandi 32 with bulldozers and threatened to demolish the house. Apart from this, he broke the main gate and set the property on fire. The attackers described the house as a symbol of dictatorship and said that they want to eradicate the traces of Mujibism from the country. The protesters raised slogans against Sheikh Hasina, who left Bangladesh on 5 August last year after protests against their government.
