sentenced to death, and Jamaat-e-Islami be banned from politics because of the violence of its followers. On 24 February, protest leaders called for the arrest of Mahmudur Rahman, accusing him of inciting communal violence and sedition because of Amar Desh coverage of bloggers and activists. Demonstrators said Rahman had reported "fabricated" news. On 26 February, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir met with protesters and pledged to take measures against Rahman. In response, the editor has called the Shahbag movement "nothing but fascism". In a 2013 interview earlier in February with Prime News, Rahman had said, Islam-affiliated parties held large demonstrations on 6 April 2013, with protesters demanding a new blasphemy law with a penalty of death. The Prime Minister said she did not support such legislation. Noting that blasphemy laws covered "hurting religious sentiment," the government charged four bloggers of eleven it identified as posting anti-Muslim material. It said the law could be applied to Amar Desh and Daily Sangram for inaccurate December 2012 articles purportedly representing imams in Saudi Arabia. In late February 2013, the bloggers and Amar Desh attacked each other in print and online. Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists have criticised both the legal harassment of Rahman and the arrest of bloggers as hampering freedom of the press in Bangladesh. April 2013 arrest On 11 April 2013, Bangladesh Police finally arrested Rahman on charges of sedition related to the hacked Huq-Ziauddin conversations, other cyber-crimes, and inciting violence. They seized his electronics and storage devices. The court granted 13 days of remand for sedition and the other charges. The confirmed charges are as follows: Section 124(a) of the Bangladesh Penal Code for sedition; Article 57, Subsections 1 and 2 of the Cyber Crime and Information and Communication Act 2006, for "publishing fake, obscene or defaming information in electronic form", popularly known for aggravating "religious sentiments", which could carry a penalty of 10 years in prison; and Article 58 of the Cyber Crime and Information and Communication Act 2006. That evening, the police closed down the Amar Desh. Although the newspaper had been sealed, its declaration had not been suspended; the Amar Desh was distributed in limited editions for the next three days in Dhaka using another press. Police raided the Daily Sangram and found evidence that it was printing Amar Desh. The government sued Sangram'''s publisher and editor, Abul Asad, and arrested 19 printers.