BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been detained by the Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Sunday.

He was detained from his house in Dhaka's Gulshan area at around 9:30am, Shamsuddin Didar, a member of the BNP chairperson's press wing, confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.

Mirza Fakhrul Islam’s wife, Rahat Ara Begum, said some DB officers arrived at their residence in the morning, and the BNP leader talked to all of them.

Later, they confiscated hard disks from both the house and the building. Ten minutes later, they came back and took Mirza Fakhrul.

DB Additional Deputy Commissioner (Gulshan Division) Hafiz Al Asad said that they have brought in Mirza Fakhrul Islam for questioning.

Police cordon off BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury`s residence on Sunday, October 29, 2023. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Meanwhile, police have cordoned off BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas's Shahjahanpur residences. 

The major opposition political party BNP has called a nationwide hartal (strike) from dawn to dusk on Sunday to protest against the police action in breaking up anti-government protests in Dhaka's Kakrail area on Saturday

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced that the strike would start at 6am and continue till 6pm during the party’s rally at Naya Paltan on Saturday.