Moyeen Khan was released around 3:30 pm, Shamsuddin Didar, a member of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s media wing, told the Daily Sun.

Earlier in the day, police picked him up from Uttara Sector-12 while he along with a good number of leaders and activities was holding a black-flag procession as part of the party’s central programme to press home demand for a fresh election under a nonparty caretaker government.

Police also detained Moyeen Khan’s personal assistant Bahauddin Bhuiyan Liton and four other activists of the party’s women front Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal from the area but further details regarding their release could not be known immediately, according to the party source.