Dhaka, Nov. 12 -- British journalist and human rights activist David Bergman has criticised the police move to show former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy arrested in several new cases, just a day after the High Court granted her bail in five previous cases.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Bergman described the police action as "utterly disgraceful" and said authorities have yet to present "credible evidence" to justify Ivy's initial arrest or her prolonged detention.

He added: "The clear intent appears to be to keep her imprisoned for the foreseeable future: as soon as she secures bail in one set of cases, new fabricated ones are filed to keep her behind bars. It would not be surprising that this is being done simp...