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Press
Release: 30 November 2004
Demand
for the release of Hill Youth Forum leader Dipankar Chakma
Prasit
Bikash Khisha, convenor of the United Peoples Democratic Front
(UPDF), in a statement issued to the press today, 30 November,
demanded immediate and unconditional release of Hill Youth
Forum leaders Dipankar Chakma and Michael Chakma, general
secretary and finance secretary respectively.
In
the statement the UPDF leader alleged that police picked them
up from Free Port area in Chittagong at the dead of night
at the behest of some top JSS leaders. Two JSS members accompanied
the police during the arrest.
Mr.
Khisha said the UPDF leaders did not have any cases filed
against them anywhere before the arrest.
He
further said, "recently political repression of the UPDF
and its front organisations has increased. Their peaceful
meetings and rallies are being regularly disrupted and other
fundamental and democratic rights are being denied to them.
Until now about 70 leaders and activists of the party are
being detained in various jails. They have been implicated
in false cases.
The
UPDF leader urged the government to immediately put an end
to all such repression.
[Press
Section, Publicity and Publication Department, United Peoples
Democratic Front (UPDF). Issued on March 30, 2004]
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