The cyber tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday deferred the verdict in the case against internationally acclaimed human rights defender Adilur Rahman Khan and rights organisation Odhikar director ASM Nasiruddin to September 14.
Adilur, also the secretary of Odhikar, is winner of numorous international awards including Franco-German prize for Human Rights in 2017.
The case was filed by the police under the Information and Communication Technology Act 2006 on charge of releasing a report on Odhikar’s website about the number of deaths during the police drive against Hefazat-e-Islam activists at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka on May 5-6, 2013.
Thursday was set to deliver the verdict but the tribunal judge AM Zulfiqar Hayat made the announcement in the presence of Bangladeshi rights defenders and a host of activists.
