Law Minister Anisul Huq today said the recent reports about the expulsion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s self-confessed killer Noor Chowdhury from Canada is false.
“We have contacted Bangladesh high commission in Canada to know about the matter and our envoy has told us that the report is not true. Our high commission has also contacted Bangladesh desk in the Canadian Foreign Ministry but couldn’t find any authenticity of the report,” the minister said.
Anisul came up with the observations while talking to journalists at his secretariat office in Dhaka.
Recently a report is appearing in the country’s media that Canada has cancelled an asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation. Today, the reporters asked the minister about Bangladesh’s next step in bringing back the killer and making him face justice.
“Our efforts are still on to bring him back and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during his recent visit to Canada has talked to her counterpart Justin Trudeau regarding this. The meeting was very fruitful and the Canadian government is now considering ways to send Chowdhury back to Bangladesh,” Anisul said.
Talking about Canada’s stand against the death sentence, Anisul said, “They have their constitutional obligations. They have told our prime minister that they are considering ways to avoid those.”
Five of the killers of Bangabandhu and most of his family were hanged on January 28, 2010, after exercising all the legal procedures. Another six death-row convicts Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Noor Chowdhury, Moslemuddin, Rashed Chowdhury and Abdul Mazed are now hiding abroad. Their cohort Abdul Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe in 2001.