DHAKA — A court in southeastern Bangladesh on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by a jailed Hindu leader, who led large rallies in the Muslim-majority country demanding better security for minority groups.
Krishna Das Prabhu faces charges of sedition after he led huge rallies in the southeastern city of Chattogram. Hindu groups said there have been thousands of attacks against Hindu s since early August, when the secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown.Authorities did not produce Prabhu at the hearing during which Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Saiful Islam rejected the bail plea, according to Public Prosecutor Mofizul Haque Bhuiyan.
Lawyers who sought to represent him at that hearing said they were threatened or intimidated, and many of them are facing charges related to the death of a Muslim lawyer when Prabhu was arrested in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, in November.For Thursday's hearing, 11 lawyers traveled from Dhaka, arriving and leaving with a security escort.
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