Three coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, including Nahid Islam, have been taken into the custody of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
DB officials took them into their custody from the capital's Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital on Friday afternoon.
Additional Commissioner of DB Harunor Rashid confirmed the matter.
He said three people were brought to the DB office for questioning for security reasons.
The other two coordinators are Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder. All three are students of Dhaka University.
Earlier, Nahid Islam’s father, Badrul Alam, and several witnesses told Dhaka Tribune that some plainclothes individuals from law enforcement agencies picked up Nahid and Asif from Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital around 4pm on Friday.
“Some people in plain clothes from the country’s law enforcement agencies picked up them from the hospital. The hospital has been barricaded by law enforcement since the morning,” Badrul Alam said.
Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud had earlier alleged that they were abducted and tortured.
