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THURSDAY, JUNE 05, 2025
Exiled journalist Shafik Rehman returns to Dhaka

Bangladesh

TBS Report
18 August, 2024, 02:40 pm
Last modified: 18 August, 2024, 02:42 pm

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Exiled journalist Shafik Rehman returns to Dhaka

Shafik Rehman, who had left the country in 2018 after facing persecution from the then Awami League government, returned home after six years. His wife, Taleya Rehman, accompanied him. 

TBS Report
18 August, 2024, 02:40 pm
Last modified: 18 August, 2024, 02:42 pm
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

After a long exile, senior journalist Shafik Rehman returned to Dhaka today on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight.

BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan Milton also returned with him. 

Shafik Rehman, who had left the country in 2018 after facing persecution from the then Awami League government, returned home after six years. His wife, Taleya Rehman, accompanied him. 

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Meanwhile, BNP leader Milton returned to the country after nine years.

Earlier, DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman filed a case at Paltan Police Station on 3 August 2015, accusing Shafik Rehman and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan Milton of plotting to abduct and kill Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Charges were brought against the accused under Sections 307 and 120-B of the Penal Code.

Later, the police submitted a charge sheet against Shafik Rehman and four others.

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