{"id":7290,"date":"2018-07-24T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/bangladesh-cafe-siege-briton-hasnat-karim-freed-without-charge\/09"},"modified":"2018-07-24T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T04:00:09","slug":"bangladesh-cafe-siege-briton-hasnat-karim-freed-without-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh cafe siege: Briton Hasnat Karim freed without charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British national Hasnat Karim leaves after his court appearance in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, 13 August 2016.\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bangladesh-cafe-siege-briton-hasnat-karim-freed-without-charge-5b56a448efe69.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"649\"\/> Image copyright AFP Symbol caption British nationwide Hasnat Karim has been acquitted of involvement in the 2016 cafe siege <\/p>\n<p>A British guy detained in Bangladesh following a dangerous cafe siege two years ago has been freed with out charge.<\/p>\n<p>Hasnat Karim was celebrating his daughter&#8217;s 13th birthday on the Holey Artisan cafe with his circle of relatives in the capital Dhaka in July 2016 while it used to be focused through Islamist militants.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty- folks, mostly foreigners, have been killed over the course of the 12-hour siege, in what was the country&#8217;s worst terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>8 suspects different had been charged.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Karim, who is in his overdue forties and has dual British-Bangladeshi citizenship, used to be taken hostage while gunmen stormed the cafe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\n<p>Eyewitnesses at the time said he become a police suspect as a result of he agreed to turn into a human protect through the siege.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights group Amnesty Global had campaigned against Mr Karim&#8217;s endured detention.<\/p>\n<p> Family fears for ex-Dhaka siege survivor Who had been victims of Bangladesh cafe assault? on the lookout for Bangladesh&#8217;s &#8216;affluent jihadists&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>the top of the police&#8217;s counter terrorism and transnational crime unit Monirul Islam stated on Monday that Mr Karim were acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Through our -12 months lengthy research, we did not find any involvement of Karim in this attack in an instant or indirectly, so he was acquitted from this case,&#8221; Mr Islam stated.<\/p>\n<p>The assault used to be claimed by way of the Islamic State team, although Bangladesh disputed this and stated a neighborhood militant team was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Five militants throughout the cafe have been killed by means of police. 8 others have now been charged over their involvement, six of whom are in custody, according to Mr Islam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP Symbol caption British nationwide Hasnat Karim has been acquitted of involvement in the 2016 cafe siege A British guy detained in Bangladesh following a dangerous cafe siege two years ago has been freed with out charge. Hasnat Karim was celebrating his daughter&#8217;s 13th birthday on the Holey Artisan cafe with his circle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}