{"id":3257,"date":"2025-09-02T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:57:41","slug":"youth-with-disabilities-serves-9-days-in-prison-for-supporting-awami-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"Youth with disabilities serves 9 days in prison for supporting Awami League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sayeed Sheikh was arrested from a procession of the Awami League in Gulistan on August 25. A police officer was dragging him while he was holding his leg, requesting to spare him. Some people accompanying the police assaulted Sayeed, as seen in videos on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case documents, the police said that he had previously spoken on television in support of the Awami League, Bangabandhu and Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Social media was flooded with his photos and videos<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Twenty-one-year-old Sayeed is a beneficiary of the Ministry of Social Welfare\u2019s allowance for people with disabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relatives say Sayeed is congenitally disabled. He is speech-impaired, cannot walk properly and has other complications. He has to be fed and taken care of all the time. Previously, he had been chained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When he was produced in court with handcuffs, the court rejected his bail petition and ordered the prison authorities to get a specialist doctor to examine and submit an opinion on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, he has lived an inhumane life in prison, his lawyers told the court on Tuesday, when Sayeed was produced in court wearing handcuffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also submitted the government allowance card. However, the prison authorities were unable to submit that expert opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering his physical condition, Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Zakir Hossain granted him bail<\/a>, considering the physical condition of the accused, on a bond of Tk500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His arrest and subsequent jailing created a huge uproar in the media when social media users vehemently criticised the fascist Yunus regime for repressive tactics and abuse of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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