Staff Reporter :
Taleya Rehman, wife of arrested journalist Shafik Rehman and former BBC journalist, has claimed that the allegation brought against her husband is totally baseless and fabricated.
“As his wife, I know him for 59 years. He can never be involved in any criminal activity,” she said at a programme at the National Press Club in the city on Wednesday.
Claiming that her husband is innocent, Taleya Rehman, also Executive Director of the Democracy Watch, sought cooperation from all quarter to free her husband.
Shafik Rehman is currently on a five-day remand in a case filed over an alleged plot to kidnap and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Police on Wednesday claimed that the journalist admitted having more than one meeting in the US with those allegedly involved in the “conspiracy” against Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Plainclothes detectives detained the pro-BNP intellectual from his city residence on Saturday.
Meanwhile, BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan said that the confessional statement about Shafik Rehman’s admitting involvement in the conspiracy to abduct and kill Sajeeb Wazed Joy is ‘atypical’. He said this while talking to reporters at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the city after visiting the grave of BNP’s founder late President Ziaur Rahman.
Nazrul Islam Khan said that as a senior journalist, Shafik Rehman might have preserved confidential documents in the name of Sajeeb Wazed Joy about his “corruption and misconduct”.
