Bangladesh police have charged eight militants over a 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 people and freed a British suspect detained without charge for the past two years.
Briton Hasnat Karim was detained after the July 2016 attack in Dhaka on suspicion of being involved. Rights group Amnesty International had campaigned for his release.
Karim was with his family celebrating his daughter’s 13th birthday at the café, when militants barged in, taking 22 hostages, mostly foreigners, who were killed over 12 hours.
Karim became a suspect after he agreed to a demand to act as a human shield during the ordeal, witnesses said at the time.
An investigation found Karim was not involved, Monirul Islam, the head of the police’s counter-terrorism and transnational crime unit, said on Monday.
“During our two-year long investigation, we did not find any involvement (of Karim) in this attack directly or indirectly, so he was acquitted from this case,”…
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