2 arrested for Facebook posts about PM Hasina

Two men were arrested on Friday for posting defamatory remarks on Facebook about prime minister Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB.

Sayed Ikram Shafi, 48, and Azad Kamal Nishan, 20, were picked up by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) members from Sitakunda's Kumira area in the morning.

They will be accused in a case, said Santosh Kumar Chakma, a PBI inspector.

"Shafi and Nishan have long been posting offensive comments about the prime minister and her family from a computer shop - Ahmadia Enterprise - at Kumira's Dalchal Mia Mazar Gate," the PBI official said.