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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mainul Hosein
| native_name = মইনুল হোসেন
| native_name_lang = bn
| office = Law, Information and Land Advisor
| term_start = 14 January 2007
| term_end = 8 January 2008
| primeminister = [[Fakhruddin Ahmed]]
| predecessor = Md. Fazlul Haque
| successor = A F Hasan Arif
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament]]
| term_start2 = March 1973
| term_end2 = May 1975
| predecessor2 = Position established
| constituency2 = Bhandaria
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
| alma_mater = [[Department of Political Science, University of Dhaka]]<br/>[[Middle Temple Inn, UK]]
| occupation = Lawyer, printer and publisher of ''The New Nation''
| father = [[Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah]]
| relatives = [[Anwar Hossain Manju]] (brother)
}}
'''Mainul Hosein''' is a Bangladeshi lawyer and the publisher of the daily newspaper ''The New Nation''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedailynewnation.com |title=The New Nation |website=The New Nation}}</ref> He is the former chairman of the editorial board of ''[[The Daily Ittefaq]]'', whose building was shelled and completely demolished on 25 March 1971 by Pakistan Army. He served as the law, information and land advisor to the immediate past interim Government of Bangladesh during January 2007 – January 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hasan |first=Rashidul |date=2009-08-04 |title=Finger pointed at Mainul |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-100092 |work=The Daily Star |accessdate=2018-10-22}}</ref>

==Background and education==
Hosein was born to journalist [[Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://thedailynewnation.com/news/95568/tributes-to-manik-mia.html |title=Tributes to Manik Mia |work=The New Nation |access-date=2018-10-23 |date=2016-06-02 }}</ref> He earned his bachelor's in political science from the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1961.<ref name=matra/> He joined [[Middle Temple]] to study law. He was called to the Bar in 1965 and became a Barrister-at-Law.<ref name=matra>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tritiyomatra.com/profile/18 |title=Profile - Mr. Barrister Moinul Hossain |work=Tritiyomatra |access-date=2018-10-23}}</ref>

== Career ==
Hosein was elected to the parliament in 1973 from [[Pirojpur District|Pirojpur]] constituency as a member of [[Bangladesh Awami League]]<ref name=matra/> headed by [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], eventually who became the prime minister. Mainul however, resigned from the parliament along with [[M. A. G. Osmani|Muhammad Ataul Goni '''Osmani''']]''',''' Commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Forces during the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence''',''' in May 1975 after the then President [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] instituted one-party system of government through the Fourth Amendment to the constitution.<ref name=matra/>

Hosein joined the Democratic League party, led by [[Khondaker Moshtaq Ahmad]] in 1976 well after [[Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad|Moshtaq]] was ousted from power on November 6 of 1975. Mainul along with other members of the Democratic League were subsequently jailed for three months by [[Ziaur Rahman|Major General Ziaur Rahman]]<ref name="matra" /> after trying to form an opposition platform to challenge BNP in the upcoming polls.

Hosein served as the president of Bangladesh Sangbadpatra Parishad, an association of newspaper owners. He was elected the president of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association for the term 2000–2001.<ref name=matra/>

Mainul joined the [[caretaker government]] as the law, information and land advisor on 14 January 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorable Minister|url=http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325035610/http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php|archive-date=2018-03-25|accessdate=2018-10-22|website=Law and Justice Division}}</ref> During his tenure, Bangladesh formally declared the separation of the government's executive and judicial functions on 1 November 2007.

==Controversy==
In October 2018, Hosein was arrested as part of a political drive against the dissident publisher in a defamation case filed by a third party with a Rangpur court.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/news/barrister-mainul-hosein-held-taken-dhaka-db-detective-branch-headquarters-1650595 |title=Defamation Case: Police arrest Mainul from city's Uttara |date=2018-10-23 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=2018-10-23 }}</ref> Earlier Masuda Bhatti, acting editor of Dainik Amader Notun Somoy, filed charges against Husein for hurling abusive words at her and termed her "characterless" at the live talk show, Ekattor Journal, on government backed [[Ekattor TV]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/10/21/mainul-hosein-faces-arrest-order-for-defaming-female-journalist |title=Sued by journalist Bhatti for 'defamatory' TV remarks, Mainul Hosein secures bail |work=bdnews24.com |date=2018-10-21 |access-date=2018-10-23}}</ref> Mainul did get bail in the case filed by Ms. Bhatti but later, his bail petition on cases filed by unrelated parties, a Dhaka Court sent Hosein to jail.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/talk-show-abuse-defamation-case-filed-against-barrister-mainul-hosein-arrest-warrant-issued-1649938 |title=Mainul gets 5 months' interim bail |date=2018-10-22 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=2018-10-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/barrister-mainul-hosein-produced-before-dhaka-court-1650781 |title=Defamation Suit: Mainul sent to prison |date=2018-10-24 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=2018-10-23 }}</ref>

Mainul's lawyers did however manage to get bail subsequently.

===''The Daily Ittefaq''===
After the death of [[Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah]] on 1 June 1969, the two sons, Hosein and [[Anwar Hossain Manju]] took charge of the management of [[The Daily Ittefaq]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] |chapter=Ittefaq, The |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Ittefaq,_The |editor2-first=Manu |editor2-last=Islam}}</ref> Bangladesh government banned all the newspapers except the government-run newspapers, the ''Bangladesh Observer'' and the ''Dainik Bangla'', via the News Paper Cancellation Act on 16 June 1975. It also took over the publication of ''The Daily Ittefaq'' and the ''Bangladesh Times''. Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib and members of his family in a bloody and brutal coup conducted by few junior active and ex military [[Syed Faruque Rahman|officers]], all private newspapers including ''The Daily Ittefaq'' was returned to its owners on 24 August 1975.

In May 2010, an agreement was signed between the two brothers, which gave ownership of Ittefaq's title and goodwill to Manju and his sisters, and Hosein was given the ownership of the building on 1 RK Mission Road.<ref name="hc0708" /> After a High Court ruling in July 2010, Manju became the publisher, printer and editor of the paper.<ref name="hc0708">{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2010/07/08/hc-declares-manju-ittefaq-editor-publisher |title=HC declares Manju Ittefaq editor, publisher |date=2010-07-08 |access-date=2018-10-23 |work=bdnews24.com}}</ref>

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