Drik Gallery founder and photographer Shahidul Alam’s health condition doesn’t warrant admission, according to doctors at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital.
“Our medical board examined him. We did not find any reason to admit him. His regular medications will continue” BSMMU Director Abdullah-Al-Harun told Bangla Tribune.
Asked whether any signs of assault were found, he said, “Our doctors did not find anything like that and he as well did not say anything about it.”
The 63-year-old was taken to the BSMMU hospital for a medical check up around 9am on Wednesday.
After the medical tests, he was taken back in to police custody around 2:30pm.
The Detective Branch has brought charges of attempting to spread ‘fear and panic’ over the internet with ‘provocative lies’ against Alam.
He is being prosecuted under the ICT Act’s controversial Section 57, which has been criticised for effectively muzzling freedom of speech.
The founder of photography agency Drik and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, was picked up from his Dhanmondi home around 10:30pm on Sunday.
He streamed videos on Facebook Live discussing the clashes in amid student protests for road safety on Saturday and Sunday.
The detention came hours after he criticised the government in an interview with Al Jazeera.
He was produced before a court on Monday, when the investigators were granted seven days to interrogate him in custody.
On Tuesday, his wife Rehnuma Ahmed moved the High Court against the remand, when the court ordered a quick transfer of Alam to hospital for treatment from police custody.
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