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HRDB NEWSLETTER

Human Rights and Development for Bangladesh Newsletter

Aug 10 2016

Bangladesh:

Another Adduction by Law Enforcing Agencies


Bangladeshs police and other law enforcing agencies have long notorious track record of maneuvering enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings .
Once again an AILA International Fellow of the Washington D.C
based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS), Mr. Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem has been abducted from his
Dhaka residence at midnight on August 9,2016.
British Barrister Mr. Ahmad is an attorney at the Supreme Court
of Bangladesh and human rights activist. He is also representing
his father Mr. Mir Quasem Ali, an opposition leader, who is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the controversial Dhaka based International Crimes Tribunal of which proceedings
have been dubbed as deeply flawed and fall short to international legal standards. (More in back page)
Mr. Ahmad is the lead defense assistant in the cases against his father Mr. Mir Quasem Ali, who is waiting in the death row, and the final
review petition of the case will be heard before the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 24th August. (More in back page)

Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) fellow members: Courtesy

Plea of
Horrified
Family
Members
Journalist David Bergmans instant interview with the family members, shared
in social network.
I just spoke to Tahera Tasnim, the 25 year old sister of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem (see
previous status). Here is what she said about her brother being picked up by plain
clothes men at about 11 pm on Tuesday evening:
At about 11 pm, there was a knock on the door of the rented house in Road 7, DOHS
Mirpur where my brothers lives and where I was just visiting at the time.
"There was a knock on the door. My brother saw through the hole that there was 7 or
8 civilian civilian dressed men there. He first did not open it and sat down on the sofa.
He asked his wife to open the door, and my brother said that everyone should behave
normally. I was in the kitchen at this point.

""When the door was opened, the men told my sister in law Where is your husband,
and my brother then went to the door, and they said You have to come with us. My
brother asked Can I have your identity? What is your force? Are you RAB, CID, DB.
What identity do you have? They did not say what was their identity. He asked several times. They did not wear any uniform and they had no legal arrest warrant. Nothing. They just said, Come with us. They did not give any reason why they wanted to
take him. They did not say why they were taking, him or where they were taking him.
My brother said, I am lawyer and I need to know these things. They was arguing
going on. And then they said We will give you five minutes to get ready. Get ready
and come with us.
"I closed the door and my brother said that there was no option but to go with him. His
wife and I kept on saying Please dont go. We said, Lets see what they do. Let the
time pass and see what happens. Then the men started knocking on the door again.
We opened the door. His wife became angry and said, You cant do this. I said,
You cannot take my brother like this without any identity, in the dead of night. Come
in the morning and taken him.
"I stood in front of my brother and held the hand of one of the plain clothes men who
said to him You cant take him. The man pulled away my hand and grabbed my
brother. The women were running behind him. It was total confusion. There was a
white microbus and he was put in it. And the vehicle drove away. We dont know
where he has been taken.
David Bergman is a British human rights activist and investigative journalist based in Bangladesh, who worked at the New Age, a Bangladesh national newspaper

What Happened
That Horrible
Night?
Ahmeds wife Tahmina Akhtar told
the Prothom Alo that after the
calling-bell of their Mirpur DOHS
house rang around 11:00pm, they
opened the door and found five
people standing.
They enquired about my husband. By this time, my husband
came to the scene and they told
him to go along them, claimed
Tahmina Akhtar.
She said the five people did not
disclose their identities even after
repeated requests.
When my husband declined to go
along with them, they dragged him
to the downstairs.
Tahmina alleged that they put her
husband into a big microbus and
went away.
When contacted, Pallabi police
station officer-in-charge Dadan
Fakir said they have no information about the incident and the
arrest of Ahmed Bin Quasem.

Facebook post of his sister


Taher Tasnim
Barrister Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem
has just been abducted by few
civilians dressed so called legal
force! Without any uniform...without any kind of arrest
warrant / legal notice....They grab
him ...and push us women away
while we tried to resist .. and took
him in a white micro ....We had
absolutely no idea where !!! Plz
inform to whom it may ....kindly
help us .....Specially his friends
and colleagues...plz !!!, read a
Facebook post of his sister Taher
Tasnim.

Raise
Your Voice

Immediate Reactions of
Adduction of Mir Ahmed
Jon Danilowicz, US Diplomat in his twitter post:

Condemn the incident as in


the name of law enforcing
agency members, a group of
plain cloth personnel have
unlawfully picked up detained Mir Quasem Alis son
and his defence counsel
Barrister Mir Ahmad Bin
Quasem Arman.

More condemnable issue


is, since the abduction incident, the officials of the law
enforcement bodies have
been denying the arrest
claim.

Human Rights Watch South Asia Director Meenakshi Ganguly in her twiiter
post:

By denying the arrest claim,


the law enforcement agencies have violated the domestic law and the constitution. Barrister Mir Ahmad
Bin Quasem has been
picked up in a bid to hamper
the trial process of Mir
Quasem Ali and also to deprive him from justice.

Call upon the international


human rights organizations
and the lawyer communities
to raise voice against such
unlawful and inhuman activities of the government.

Urge the Bangladesh Govt.


and the concerned authorities to disclose the whereabouts of Barrister Arman
immediately and to bring
him back to his family. Otherwise, the government has
to take the liabilities if he
suffers from any damages.

Read More:

Bangladeshs police and other law enforcing agencies have long notorious track
record of maneuvering enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/25/dispatches-forcibly-disappeared-bangladesh
According to rights groups in between 2013 and 2015, some 188 were victims of
enforced disappearance of whom only 32 dead bodies were found.
http://goo.gl/2NS8zB
More details about Barrister Mr. Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem
http://www.thelcounsel.com.bd/index.php/people-lawyers-bangladesh/associate
https://www.csis.org/programs/executive-education/aila-international-fellowsprogram/2015-16-fellows

Human Rights and Development for Bangladesh Newsletter

Aug 10 2016

Another Adduction: Contd.


According to the account of Mr. Mir Ahmad family wife shared with their families and friends immediately after the abduction, the attorney was picked up
by some 7-8 plain clothes persons at the middle of the night who forcefully
took him from their Mirpur residence.
Journalist David Bergman talked to the family and shared in his social network Facebook account revealed the abductors denied to reveal their identities and failed to show any arrest warrant.
US Diplomat Jon Daniwolicz expressed concern about the abduction in his
twitter account quoting, Deeply concerned by reports of Mr. Ahmads apparent abduction in Bangladesh. He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Human Rights Watchs South Asia Director Meenakshi Ganguly urged the
authorities to immediately release the abducted attorney. She quoted in her
twitter account, Bangladesh lawyer Mr. Ahmad picked up from his home at
11 pm by five men in plainclothes, no warrant. Authorites must charge or
release.
Bangladeshs leading newspaper Daily Prothom Alo reported that the attorney was picked up by lawman referring his family members.
Another influential news outlet Bangla Tribune reported that the attorney
was given only five minutes to get ready and leave the house.

From the abducted attorneys wifes account, he was picked up in front of his
two daughters, both of the them are aged less than 5 years.
The attorneys family went to Mirpur Police station to lodge a general diary of
the incident expressing concern of his life, but police denied to accept the
GD.
According to wife of the abducted attorney, he was forcefully taken off from
the residence in front of their two daughters, who are below 5 years in age.
His wife Farhana Thamina pleaded for help to know the whereabouts of her
husband.
Bangladeshs police and other law enforcing agencies have long notorious
track record of maneuvering enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings. According to rights groups in between 2013 and 2015, some 188 were
victims of enforced disappearance of whom only 32 dead bodies were
found.
More condemnable issue is, since the abduction incident, the officials
of the law enforcement bodies have been denying the arrest claim.
In a similar incident Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of Salauddin Quader
Chowdury executed allegedly by so-called International War Criminal, was
detained by detectives from a court premise in Dhaka on August 4th.

Mir Ahmad BinQuasem is a practicing barrister at the Supreme


Court of Bangladesh. He is a
member of the Defense Team, a
group of lawyers defending key
opposition leaders of Bangladesh
who are facing trial at the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka.
He represented high profile political leaders, journalists and human
rights activist both before the International Crimes Tribunal and in
District/High Courts of Bangladesh. He has worked with international human rights organizations,
multinational NGOs, international
donor agencies, international think
tanks, international media outlets
and foreign missions in Dhaka to
promote fair trial systems, due
judicial process, human rights,
civil and political rights, good governance and freedom of the press.
He is consulted on a regular basis
by the international community for
analysis of Bangladeshs political
and security situation.
He completed his Bar Vocational
Course from the Inns of Court
School of Law, London and was
called to the Bar of England and
Wales in 2007. He has spent a
year in Egypt obtaining a diploma
in Classical Arabic. He was
trained by 9 Bedford Row International, a leading legal firm on International Criminal Law during
the trials at the International
Crimes Tribunal. His other legal
practice areas include judicial
review, international trade, corporate law, admiralty, military law,
foreign direct investment, public
private projects, international/
multinational financing, and Islamic finance and banking.

Human Rights and Development for Bangladesh (HRDB) / email: humanrightsbd@gmail.com

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