CPB express concern over abduction of its Mymensing leader by zealots, demands security for comrades

Habibullah Mizan
President and the general secretary respectively of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Manjurul Ahsan Khan and Mujahidul Islam Selim in a statement expressed their concerned over the kidnapping of its Mymensingh city unit president Abdur Rab Mosharaf by religious extremists.

They urged the government to ensure the security of all of their party comrades.

They CPB leaders claimed that the miscreants not only kidnapped Mosharaf, but also tortured him mentally and physically,forcing him to listen to a compact disc of waz (religious sermons), while being forced to take a microbus ride on July 13.

Some unidentified terrorists kidnapped the communist leader when he was returning to his residence at Shehara Nirmalabash area in Mymensingh town.

The two CPB leaders alleged that the kidnappers threatened him to give up left politics and join the Islamic path.

Meanwhile, CPB Mymensingh district president Abdul Aziz Talukder and General Secretary Advocate Imdadul Haque Millat in another statement demanded of the government to immediately arrest the culprits behind the abduction of CPB leader Mosharaf.