Our report on the findings ol a parliamentary sub-committee published on September 8 under the headline “SPA mosth misused" inadvertently contained inaccurate information about the number of people detained under Ihe Special Powers Act (SPA) by successive governments. This happened due to ambiguous information In the report about he detainees.

The statistics mentioned In the report In this regard is actually of the people the governments kept under detention while quitting power.

In fact, the number of people detained under different governments are as follows; Ban-gabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (74-75) - 3.336.

Khandakar Moshlaque Ahmed. Zinur Rahman and Justice Abdus Sattar 175-81) - 8.242. HM Ershad (82-90) - 27.973. Khaleda Zia (91-95) and Sheikh Hasina (96-98) - 1 1.733.