Bangladeshi policemen detain the man, who allegedly issued a written threat to the Egyptian consulate in Dhaka, yesterday.
By Mizan Rahman /Dhaka
Bangladesh police yesterday arrested a man named M Shawkat Osman, who dropped a handwritten threat letter in the Egyptian Embassy’s letter box in Dhaka.
He was arrested from Focus Coaching Centre in the capital’s Farmgate area yesterday morning.
Osman identified himself as an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami, deputy commissioner (public relations) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told newsmen yesterday.
Following the threat, the Egyptian embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday announced closure of its consular section for 11 days from yesterday.
Office-in-charge of Gulshan police station Rafiqul Islam said: “A man identifying himself as M Shawkat Osman from Farmgate dropped a handwritten letter into the letter box of the embassy on Tuesday.”
Islam quoted from the letter: “Stop genocide on Brotherhood…Don’t make Egypt like Syria…something wrong may happen like the Egyptian embassy firing in Libya.”
The letter also warned of blowing the Egyptian embassy up on non-compliance, he said.
The letter writer also identified himself as a supporter of Mursi, Islam said, adding that security measures had earlier been tightened at Dhaka city’s Egypt mission soon after the military crackdown in Cairo.
“Being informed about the threat, we’ve strengthened our surveillance at the diplomatic enclave (Gulshan-Baridhara) to avert any untoward incident,” Islam said.