three-part series of story-based events in a historical context, and an essay based compilation “Ekush Shotoker Agenda”. His most popular literary work up to date has been the “Saimum Series”. This series showcases literary fiction combining suspense, thrill, Islamic knowledge and morality within historical contexts and settings. Till now, 62 books have been published in this popular series. Presently, Abul Asad continues to write novels along with being the editor of the Daily Sangram. Arrest and persecution Asad was arrested on 19 September 2011, Monday, by the Bangladeshi paramilitia force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from his residence in connection with his role as editor of The Daily Sangram, which is largely critical of government policies. Police accused him for his alleged connection with street clashes between law enforcers and Jamaat-e-Islami men in Dhaka and elsewhere, and for vandalising vehicles, arson and obstructing the police officers while they are on duty, and he faced charges of 'patronising the violence'. He was granted bail after a police remand and released on 23 September 2011. Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the leading opposition party, firmly condemned his arrest and called for the withdrawal of the “trumped-up” charges brought against him. In April 2013, Bangladesh police arrested Mahmudur Rahman, the Editor of Amar Desh newspaper, and shut down its printing facilities. Amar Desh journalists attempted to keep printing their newspaper through the printing facilities of the Daily Sangram, and police arrested 19 employees of Sangram printing press. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based non-profit, condemned this police harassment of the Daily Sangram staff and its Editor Abul Asad. Mob-Lynching by pro-government group and subsequent arrest in 2019 On 13 December 2019, a group of pro-government activists under the banner of Muktijoddha Monch (Freedom Fighters Platform) gathered and seized the office of Daily Sangram. They burnt several copies of the newspaper, vandalised dozens of computers and other office equipments and furnitures and dragged the Editor to the street and tried to force him to apologise in front of the TV cameras on the street for describing an executed jamaat leader convicted for war crimes as a 'martyr'. After the pro-government group assaulted and harassed him, police took over and took him to the police station. He is in prison since then, facing the charge of high treason, under the draconian Digital Security Act 2018. Asad faces 14 years