Salahuddin Cuboid Chowdhury

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Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury ( Bengali সালাউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী Sālāuddin Kāder Caudhurī ; born March 13, 1949 in Gahira , Chittagong ; † November 22, 2015 in Dhaka ) was a Bangladeshi politician ( BNP ).

Life

Chowdhury was the son of Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry , who was a prominent East Pakistani politician before 1971, was temporarily speaker of the Pakistani National Assembly and in this capacity was several interim president of Pakistan . Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was a long-time MP in the Jatiyo Sangshad for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in independent Bangladesh . Furthermore, he was a close confidante of the current party chairman Khaleda Zia .

After the BNP had to go into the opposition after losing parliamentary elections and the new government set up a tribunal to deal with war crimes during the 1971 War of Independence in 2010, Chowdhury and other opposition leaders were brought to justice. In 2013 he was sentenced to death for genocide, torture and rape . After President Abdul Hamid had rejected his mercy petition on November 21, 2015 at 00:55 Chowdhury was the Nov. 22, 2015 together with the former Minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in the central prison of the capital Dhaka hanged . Western observers of the court proceedings sharply criticized that elementary principles of the rule of law had not been observed. Stephen Rapp, the war crimes commissioner for the United States Department of State , said it was "disturbing" that Chowdhury had not been allowed to call in witnesses - including a former US ambassador - to testify that he was at the time at least some of the war crimes in question had not actually occurred in Bangladesh.

While supporters of the government celebrated the executions with street parties, the government ordered tightened security measures, as the worst unrest to date since the country's independence had already occurred in 2013 after the verdict was announced, which resulted in the death of around 500 people. The opposition, which believed the trials to be politically motivated, called for a general strike . Human Rights Watch described the processes as unfair and inconsistent with the rule of law.

Temporary disappearance of the son

On August 3, 2016, Chowdhury's son Hummam Quader Chowdhury disappeared in Dhaka. Friends said he was taken in a car by three people unknown. Family members said he was kidnapped by the Detective Branch , a special unit of the Bangladeshi police. For months, the fate of Hummam Quader Chowdhury remained unknown to the public. On March 2, 2017, he reappeared in Dhaka. Allegedly he had no memory of the circumstances of his abduction or the time that followed. Amnesty International cited the case as an example of the disappearance of politically unpopular people in Bangladesh and called on the Bangladesh government to clarify the circumstances.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ঔদ্ধত্যের আরেক নাম সাকাচৌ. In: bangla.bdnews24.com. November 22, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015 (Bengali).
  2. ↑ Bangladesh: No mercy for death row inmates. In: Deutsche Welle , November 21, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Two opposition politicians executed in Bangladesh. In: Euronews , November 22, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ Bangladesh executes two opposition leaders. In: Zeit Online , November 22, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015.
  5. ^ Matthew Pennington: US criticism grows over Bangladesh war crimes tribunal. Associated Press, November 20, 2015, accessed January 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bangladesh: Halt Imminent War Crimes Executions - Suspend Death Penalty Immediately. In: hrw.org. November 20, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015.
  7. ↑ SQ Chy son Hummam allegedly picked up by DB. Dhaka tribune, August 4, 2016, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Manik Miazee: Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury's son Hummam returns home. Dhaka Tribune, March 2, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Manik Miazee: Hummam Quader cannot remember anything about abduction. Dhaka tribune, March 3, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Bangladesh: Man Released From Long Secret Detention. Amnesty International, March 2, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Chowdhury, Salahuddin Cuboid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES সালাউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী (BnS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi politician (BNP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gahira , Chittagong
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2015
Place of death Dhaka , Bangladesh