“We were attacked by a mob and then arrested instead of those who carried out the assault,” Prof Karzon told the court. They were subsequently sent to jail by the court in response to a police petition to keep them in custody. The arrests stem from an incident on Thursday, when Latif Siddique and other veterans of the 1971 Liberation War came under attack during a roundtable discussion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity. The event, titled “Our Great Liberation War and the Constitution of Bangladesh”, was organised by the platform Mancha 71. “For speaking about the Liberation War and the Constitution, they were mobbed, humiliated and then falsely accused,” said lawyer Farzana Yasmin Rakhi.
