U.K. Conservative MP Bob Blackman reacted sharply to the Bangladeshi interim government on attacks against the Hindu community in Bangladesh following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August this year.
"I condemned attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh and imprisonment of Chinmoy Krishna Das. Freedom of religion must be preserved globally," MP wrote on X.
He added, "I am also concerned by the attempt in their High Court to rule that #ISKCON should be banned from the country."
He added that there was an attempt made in the Bangladesh court to ban the ISKCON which is a direct threat to minorities in the country.
"We have fought for the freedom of Bangladeshi and we cannot allow any government there to persecute minorities there," the MP said.
He is Chinmoy Krishna or Krishna Prabhu Das who was arrested by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch (DB) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:30 pm on Monday.
Chinmoy Krishna Das was caught by Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday.
Chinmoy Krishna was associated not only with the Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajot, which is a grand national alliance of 23 religious organisations in the country but also with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, known popularly as ISKCON.
As the news of Chinmoy Krishna's arrest spread on social media, several protests broke out in Chittagong, demanding his immediate release.
It was reported that protesters march and rally at the city's Cheragi intersection and chant slogans demanding his release.
Several videos that hit social media late Monday night showed Bangladeshi policemen targeting the protestors as they marched towards the Cheragi intersection.
The incidents of vandalism, looting, arson, land grabbing, and threats to leave the country have been repeatedly inflicted on the Hindu community after the interim government was sworn in on August 8 under the leadership of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus.
The Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad had earlier sent an 'open letter' to Yunus, expressing "profound sorrow and concern" over a particular group's "unprecedented violence" against the minorities.
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