বাঙ্গালী জাতির গৌরবময় ইতিহাস, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, স্বাধীনতা ও সার্বভৌমত্ব এবং জাতীয় সংস্কৃতির জন্য অপমানজনক কোনকিছু এই ব্লগে লেখা যাবে না।

• Men from an army intelligence unit were behind the arrest, Khalil's wife said • The men took Khalil's passport, cell phones, documents, wife said • Human Rights Watch's Asia director expresses extreme concern • Khalil worked on HRW report last year about alleged torture by elite forces The Bangladeshi army arrested a Bangladesh journalist at his home early Friday for unknown reasons, according to his wife. Tasneem Khalil writes for the Dhaka-based Daily Star and also works part-time for Human Rights Watch and as a stringer for several news organizations, including CNN. Khalil's wife telephoned CNN to say that the men who arrested him were from an army intelligence unit. In a statement, she said that four men in plainclothes identified themselves as belonging to "the joint task force." They refused to tell Khalil on what charges he was being arrested and cautioned him to be quiet "if you don't want anything else to happen," she said. The men searched the house, took Khalil's passport and cell phones, two desktop computers and "all the documents, notepads, piles of paper, CDs and everything," she said. "They took it all away." The men allegedly took Khalil to the Sangsad Bhavan army camp outside the parliament building in Dhaka. The Bangladeshi army has detained thousands of people since declaring a state of emergency on January 11, Human Rights Watch said. Many of them have been tortured, the group said. "We are extremely concerned about Tasneem Khalil's safety," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "He has been a prominent voice in Bangladesh for human rights and the rule of law and has been threatened because of that." Late last year, Khalil worked on an HRW report about the elite Bangladeshi security forces and its alleged participation in torture and extrajudicial killings, said HRW press director Emma Daly. CNN and HRW have been in contact with Bangladesh's Special Envoy to the United States, Farook Sobhan, and other officials in attempts to find information about Khalil. Sobhan told CNN it was the first he'd heard about Khalil's arrest and promised to make inquiries.