The timeline of arrestingProthom Alo journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams is very telling. According to the police documents, a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams was registered with Tejgaon police station at 02:15 a.m. on Wednesday by Syed Golam Kibria, general secretary of Jubo League’s Dhaka North Ward 11 unit. In less than two hours, members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) reached Shams’ home in Savar, accompanied by a sub-inspector from the local police station. The speed of police response to this case indicates that the ruling party man did not bring it on a whim. Now, a case has been filed against the newspaper’s editor-publisher, Matiur Rahman. Remember the announcement made by law minister Anisul Haque that the home ministry had instructed the police that journalists would no longer be arrested under the DSA until an investigation was complete? Why was that instruction not complied with by Tejgaon police? This incident is a clear proof that the pl...