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Aug 10 2016
Bangladesh:
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.
Raise
Your Voice
Immediate Reactions of
Adduction of Mir Ahmed
Jon Danilowicz, US Diplomat in his twitter post:
Human Rights Watch South Asia Director Meenakshi Ganguly in her twiiter
post:
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
Aug 10 2016
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.