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Thursday, September 10, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Re: Sadequee's handover to US in 2006 illegal: HC

very good catch Turkman!

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "turkman@..." <turkman@...> wrote:
>
> I'm ashamed to hear that Bangladesh High Court is being run by
Illiterates, who do not ask for proof of allegation and start issuing
their Judgements. How the hell that guy became a Bangla National?
> Just because it was claimed so in the Petition?
> Why court issued decision without learning that he was not a
Bangladesh National?
> He was a US National, not Bangladesh and Extradition Treaty was not
needed for his deportation back to USA if USA had demanded her National
or Citizen back.
> -----------------
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan bd_mailer@ wrote:
> >
> > Sadequee's handover to US in 2006 illegal: HC
> >
> > Dhaka, Aug 26 (bdnews24.com) â€" The High Court has declared
Bangladesh's 2006 handover of Ehsanul Islam Sadequee to US authorities
illegal in absence of an extradition treaty. Sadequee was convicted of
terrorism in a US court earlier this month.
> >
> > The bench of judges Shahidul Islam and Syeda Afsar Jahan gave the
order on Wednesday upon a petition by Sardar Mohammad Sharif, the
Bangladeshi father of the US-born Sadequee.
> >
> > Sadequee, who had come to Bangladesh on Aug 20, 2005, was arrested
on Apr 17, 2006, from the capital's Baridhara area.
> >
> > He was reportedly handed over to the FBI three days after his
arrest.
> >
> > Sadequee's father Sharif petitioned the High Court on May 14, 2006,
challenging the legality of handing over him to the FBI, as Bangladesh
and the United States had no extradition treaty.
> >
> > The High Court served a rule nisi upon the government the following
day.
> >
> > Advocate TH Khan, representing the petitioner in the hearing
Wednesday, said Sadequee was taken first to Japan and then to the US.
> >
> > Khan also claimed handing over "a Bangladeshi national" to the
United States "goes against the country's independence and sovereignty".
> >
> > Attorney general Mahbubey Alam was also present in the High Court
hearing.
> >
> > A US federal jury found Sadequee, an American of Bangladeshi
descent, guilty on terrorism charges on Aug 13 this year.
> >
> > The US State Department said in a statement that Sadequee, 23, was
"arrested in Bangladesh by the FBI" in 2006.
> >
> > He was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to
terrorists, including Pakistan-based terrorist organisation
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET) and faces up to 60 years in federal prison, say
US authorities. His sentencing in the US is scheduled for Oct. 15.
> >
> > According to the evidence presented during the trial in an Atlanta
court, which began on August 3, 2009, Sadequee was born in Fairfax,
Virginia, in 1986. He attended school in the United States, Canada, and
Bangladesh.
> >
>

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