RAB-3 has filed a case against 11 people including information technology technologists, bloggers, expatriate journalists and cartoonists at Ramna Police Station under the Digital Security Act for spreading rumors and creating confusion in the minds of the people.

In this case already, information technology and state thinker Md. Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and businessman and writer Mostaq Ahmed have been arrested.

The other accused are expatriate journalists Tasnim Khalil and Shahed Alam, Minhaj Mannan, Sayer Zulkarnain, Ashiq Imran, Philip Schumacher, Swapan Wahid, and blogger Asif Mohiuddin.

Ramna Police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monirul Islam said the case was filed under their Digital Security Act on Wednesday (May 7th).

According to the statement of case, RAB-3 has reviewed and seen that the admin of IM Bangladeshi (written in English) page Sayer Zulkarnain, I Kishore, Ashiq Imran, Philip Schumacher, Swapan Wahid, and Mostaq Ahmed have been running the Facebook page for a long time.

From this Facebook page, attempts are being made to spread propaganda and confusion with the intention of tarnishing the image of the Father of the Nation, Liberation War of Bangladesh, epidemic, and the image of the state/government. Despite knowing propaganda or lies, they were spreading various information including rumors through social media. RAB has mentioned that this is creating confusion, instability, and chaos among the people.

In the statement, RAB has given links to various posts.