Senior journalist Shafiq Rehman, who returned to the country after spending six years in exile, said that he wants Sheikh Hasina (former prime minister) to be alive. He thinks that living is his punishment. Shafiq Rehman made this comment after landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday (August 18).
Earlier, Shafiq Rehman arrived at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from London on a Bangladesh Biman flight around 12:30 PM on Sunday. Shafiq Rehman was greeted with applause and flowers at the airport by journalist leaders and leaders of BNP and organizations.
Senior journalist Shafiq Rehman
Wishing the countrymen red roses, Shafiq Rehman said, ‘I am against the death penalty. I don’t want any loss of life. No violence, love all.
Shafiq Rehman said about personal worship, stop personal worship. Person worship is against Islam. The country should be moved forward. It is a revolutionary government, revolutionary laws are being implemented here now. According to that law, the trial must take place within two months. If you read the history of Cuba, you will know.’
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Shafiq Rehman said about the demands of the new government, ‘Everybody should get jobs, the prices of daily necessities should be reduced. Law and order must be maintained.’
This senior journalist said about those killed in the student movement, ‘those who gave their lives and suffered in this movement should be rehabilitated.’
Incidentally, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor sentenced five people including journalist Shafiq Rehman and acting editor of Daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman to 7 years imprisonment in the case of ‘conspiracy to kidnap and kill’ the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajib Wazed Joy on August 17 last year.
Earlier on August 3, 2015, a police officer filed the case at Paltan police station. Shafiq Rehman was arrested on April 16, 2016 in that case. After being released on bail, he had to leave the country.