Police in Bangladesh said yesterday they had arrested two school teachers on suspicion of staging a drama containing blasphemous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad.
.... He said the teachers had been accused of “hurting religious sentiment” for helping organise the drama at their school. At least 3,000 demonstrators barricaded a key road and held noisy protests in front of the school and in other towns in the district on Friday.
Violence also erupted yesterday as up to 7,000 Muslims shouted slogans and set ablaze the house of the drama’s director, who has fled the remote area, another senior police official Zaiadul Haq told AFP. [AFP] Read more
