Bangladesh on Tuesday released a French aid worker, an official said, months after he was arrested in the country's south-eastern resort district of Cox's Bazar for allegedly helping Myanmar's Rohingya refugees. Police arrested Moussa Tchantchuing, also known as Moussa Ibn Yacoub, on December 19 on charges of "suspicious activities". He was later also accused of a "criminal breach of trust, cheating by personation and abetment".
"He was released from Cox's Bazar jail this (Tuesday) afternoon after he was granted bail by the High Court," deputy jail chief Arpan Chowdhury told AFP by phone. French embassy press attache Shakhawat Hossain told AFP that he was freed "after 70 days in jail on condition that he cannot leave Bangladesh territory without the prior permission of the judge". Tchantchuing had come to Bangladesh and neighbouring Myanmar to help the Rohingyas, according to the non-governmental organisation he worked for, BarakaCity.