A senior Bangladeshi politician who criticised the annual Hajj pilgrimage made by Muslims to Mecca has been arrested in Dhaka.
Abdul Latif Siddique was denied bail and sent to jail on charges of insulting Islam.
Mr Siddique returned from India on Sunday after a long trip abroad.
Calls for his arrest came after he told a gathering in New York in September that he was "dead against the Hajj". He was subsequently sacked as a minister.
His comments triggered an angry reaction among hard line Islamist parties, who staged protests.
They and other opposition political parties demanded the former telecommunication minister's immediate arrest.
'An apostate'
Television footage from the US showed Mr Siddique telling a Bangladeshi expatriate audience in New York that he opposed the Hajj, and that the Prophet Mohammed had established it partly for commercial reasons.
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