Mufti Amir Hamza placed on 5-day remand

Mufti Amir Hamza, a well-known speaker on Islam, was placed on a five-day remand today in connection with a case filed over “misinterpreting the religion and encouraging extremism” at waz mahfils.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atikul Islam passed the order after Inspector Kazi Mizanur Rahman of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.

Earlier, CTTC officials arrested him from Kushtia district and brought him to Dhaka.

CTTC officials claimed Hamza has been disseminating misleading information in the name of Islam at waz mahfils.

Several of his speeches found on YouTube and other social media were instigating teenagers and drawing them into militancy, they claimed.