Barrister Mainul Hosein will not get any privilege in prison, say the Dhaka Central Jail authorities.
“He will be kept at the ward designated for new inmates and will be treated as an ordinary prisoner,” Jailer Mahbub Alam told Bangla Tribune.
Mainul was taken to the jailhouse in Keraniganj just after 3pm, said the prison official.
Earlier on Tuesday, a Dhaka court denied him bail in a case over slandering a female journalist on live television.
He was detained late on Monday from Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President ASM Abdur Rab’s home in Dhaka’s Uttara and taken to the Detective Branch offices.
Mainul is one of the sponsors of the Gano Forum chief Dr Kamal Hossain-led new alliance, Jatiya Oikya Front, with the BNP, JSD and Mahmudur Rahman Manna's Nagorik Oikya.
The case against Mainul, the publisher and editorial board chief of The Daily New Nation, was started in Rangpur and a court there issued a warrant against him, police said.
His remarks triggered a firestorm of anger and criticism since Oct 16, when he called journalist Masuda Bhatti a ‘debauchee’ in Ekattor Journal, a live talk show on Ekattor TV.

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