Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Seven militants have been sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan cafe attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Café attack case today, one of death row convicts reached into his pocket and brought out a prayer cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State.
The family of Detective Branch of Police’s Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim wants immediate execution of the verdict in the Holey Artisan café attack case.
The prosecution has expressed their satisfaction over the verdict that awarded death penalty to seven militants in Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Sharmina Parvin, one of the eyewitnesses of the Holey Artisan attack, yesterday told a tribunal in Dhaka how she saw innocent people being killed by the militants.
Shariful Islam alias Khaled, the last of the charge-sheeted accused to be arrested in the Dhaka café attack case, was a meritorious student before he got involved with banned militant outfit JMB, a top official of Rapid Acton Battalion says.
Banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was planning a Trishal-like prison van ambush to snatch the inmates accused in the Gulshan café attack case.
Although some Bangladeshi politicians till the recent past – the home minister repeated his position on July 3 2016 that the Holey Artisan Bakery massacre has no ISIS link...
In the aftermath of Gulshan café siege, photos of suspected attackers surfaced in public domain, prompting social media users and journalists to search for their identities and look into family and educational backgrounds. There have been some findings but a lot more is yet to be unearthed.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday said the five militants whose identities were made public after the Gulshan attack, have links with the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Bangladesh needs to have a national unity shunning the blame game to fight back and combat violent extremism, said a renowned global analyst.
The police headquarters yesterday issued a statement, strongly reviling the heinous terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan Café in the capital's Gulshan area.
The pain is unbearable for Komakichi Okamura who lost his 32-year-old son Makoto Okamura to Friday's savage attacks on a restaurant in the capital.
Foreign countries and their missions in Dhaka, leaders of journalists' associations and political leaders yesterday and on Saturday
Denouncing the Gulshan terror attack, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon all, irrespective of party and opinion, to unite against terrorism without any further delay.
Outraged at the killing of their citizens, Japan and Italy have sent high officials, counter-terrorism intelligence experts, response teams and victims' family members to Dhaka on special aircrafts.
The 12-hour tense siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery, the brutal killings, the blood and the faces of the young militants all left millions in a state of shock as it was beyond their imagination that such brutality could be unleashed in Bangladesh.
