"We filed a bail petition with the court. It can be learned after 12:00pm when the hearing on it will be held," Prashanta Kumar Karmoker, a lawyer for Shams, told The Daily Star this morning

Nearly 35 hours after he was picked up from home, Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams was yesterday produced before a Dhaka court that sent him to jail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

It is our moral duty to condemn the arrest of Samsuzzaman Shams and demand his immediate release.