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Bangladesh arrests social media star for dance video at mosque

Bangladesh arrests social media star for dance video at mosque

BANGLADESH police arrested a social media star for shooting a dance video with a woman at a mosque, officials said Monday (9).

The clip triggered online anger in the Muslim-majority nation, police said, adding that a 20-year-old Yasin was arrested at his home in Daudkandi, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Dhaka.


Police said they are also hunting for the woman in the video.

Yasin allegedly shot the clip last month and uploaded it to his account on the Likee video sharing site.

He was seen in the video dancing with a woman on the stairs of the Daudkandi Model Mosque, one of 50 Muslim places of worship built recently by the government.

His account has since been suspended but police said Yasin's dance videos had drawn more than 940,000 followers.

"He was arrested under the digital security law for hurting people's religious sentiments," Aminul Islam, the town's police chief said, adding that the dancing had "desecrated the mosque".

Police in Bangladesh have arrested scores of people for hurting religious sentiment, including many Hindus and followers of other minority faiths accused of defaming the Koran or posting comments that could hurt religious feelings.

In September, a Hindu man was jailed for seven years for insulting Prophet Mohammed on Facebook.

Others accused of blasphemy in Bangladesh, including several secular bloggers, have been jailed or faced attacks by radical Islamists in recent years.

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