BD Christian poet arrested over writing on priests

DHAKA: Police in southern Bangladesh arrested a prominent poet on Tuesday after he was accused of hurting the religious feelings of the country’s minority Christian community, police said.Henry Sawpon, a Christian himself, was detained in Barisal, south of the capital Dhaka, after a priest filed a case against him for a series of defamatory writings about the clergy. "He was arrested under the country’s digital security law for hurting religious sentiments of the Christian community," Barisal Metropolitan Police commissioner Shahabuddin Khan told AFP.Sawpon, whose poems and rhymes are regularly published in leading Bangladesh newspapers and magazines, was sent to jail after a court rejected his bail application.

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