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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Re: [ALOCHONA] President pardons 21 AL activists in death row

The release of killers of AL are no shocking information. Al is a terrible organization with historyof murder and kidnapping and sheltering criminals. In Bangladesh there is few justice unless you are a strongman.

On Mon Sep 6th, 2010 10:32 PM EDT Isha Khan wrote:

>*President pardons 21 AL activists in death row*
>
>President Zillur Rahman granted clemency to 20 Awami League activists
>sentenced to death for murder are being set free from Dhaka and Rajshahi
>Central jails anytime now.Sadar Upazila Parishad vice-chairman Asadur Rahman
>Asad told UNB yesterday night that documents of the President's granting
>their mercy petitions reached the Dhaka and Rajshahi jails on Thursday. They
>likely to be released today.
>
>Dhaka Central Jail sources confirmed the receipt of clemency order. "We are
>examining the documents. They will be set free tonight or tomorrow," a
>senior jail official told UNB.
>
>Judge Firoze Alam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal of Dhaka had sentenced 21
>people, including Naldanga thana Awami League general secretary SM Feroze on
>August 24, 2006 for murder of Jubo Dal leader Sabbir Hossain Gama, also the
>nephew of former BNP central leader Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu.
>
>One of the convicts, Akbar Ali, remained fugitive since the incident while
>ten each are now in Dhaka and Rajshahi Central Jails.The convicts, all Awami
>League activists of Naldanga, had made mercy petitions to the President,
>which were granted, said Asadur Rahman.
>
>They had been accused of hacking and shooting down Sabbir Hossain at Kazipur
>Kamarpara bazaar on February 7, 2004 by terrorists. The killers had left the
>spot raising slogans of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party.His father
>Rafiqul Islam Talukdar had filed the murder case against 16 identified AL
>activists and about 16 others unknown. Police investigator charge-sheeted
>them. Natore District and Sessions judge's court transferred the case to the
>Speedy Trial Tribunal Court in Dhaka that convicted and sentenced 21 persons
>to death.
>
>Those in Dhaka Central Jail are: SM Firoze and his brothers Fazlul Haq
>Master and Farooq Hossain, Anisur Rahman and his sons Sentu and Farooq,
>Shahjahan Ali, Badal, Zahedul Islam and Faruq Hossain.Zahurul Shah, Sajjad,
>Sohag, Bablu, Abul, Ataur, Ashraf, Formazul, Fakhruddin and Ohidur Rahman
>are in Rajshahi Jail.
>
>http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/09/07/news0749.htm

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