Video Of Boy’s Brutal Killing Triggers Protests

One suspect, 22-year-old Muhit Alam, was arrested by local residents after reportedly being found trying to dump Rajan’s body on the day of the murder.

Police were also hunting for “two others who directly took part” in the beating, Hossain told AFP.

Police are searching for the group of men who beat 13-year-old boy to death and put the video of the torture online.

One, Kamrul Islam, 24, was detained in his native Saudi Arabia, where he apparently fled after the 8 July attack.

Hundreds of people formed a human chain earlier Monday outside Samiul’s home to protest over the killing, which prompted widespread soul-searching on social media about the prevalence of violence in Bangladesh.

Similar protests have been organised for other major cities, including the capital Dhaka.

He was remanded into custody for five days by a court in Sylhet on Monday after police pressed murder charges.

Police have filed a case against four, including Alam, over the murder. Two people can be seen, but voices of at least three to four people can be heard.

Informed about the suspect, police went to the spot and took Muhit into custody and recovered Rajan’s body from a microbus.

‘They will be arrested and given tough punishment, ‘ Kamal told reporters.

In a video filmed by an expat TV station as he was led away to a waiting police auto in handcuffs, Islam said that he had “made a mistake, please forgive me”, before bursting into tears. The men are shown laughing and taunting young Samiul Alam Rajon as they hit him repeatedly with a metal rod, while he begs them to stop and asks for a glass of water.

In the video, Samiul can be heard screaming in pain, crying: “Please don’t beat me like this, I will die”.

Samiul’s attackers can be heard on the footage trying to force him to confess his involvement in the burglary.

When the attackers tell him to walk away and Samiul tries to get to his feet, one of the attackers shouts: “His bones are OK”.

Amid a firestorm of public outrage over the gruesome murder of 13-year-old Rajon, the Bangladeshi community in Saudi Arabia has helped police catch the man who was seen most active in beating the kid in a widely circulated video. “Beat him some more”.