Humam doesn’t know where he was all these days

Humam Quader Chowdhury, younger son of executed BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury has returned, finally.

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was hanged in 2015 for crimes committed against humanity in 1971.  

His family says he was dropped off late Thursday night near their Dhanmondi house. Humam has “no idea who dropped him off or where he was all these days”.

Humam’s lawyer says he had been picked up seven months ago on 4 August last year by persons identifying themselves as detective branch of police from in front of the Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge court.

He had been ‘missing’ since then.

Humam’s uncle and BNP vice chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury told Prothom Alo that late Thursday night Human was left in front of the mosque near Dhanmondi lake. His physical condition was more or less all right.

Gias Quader said Human has no idea where he has been all these days nor does he know who had dropped him off.

Humam Chowdhury had secured a position in BNP’s new committee after his father, BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, was hanged. Humam is now a central committee member of opposition political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

On 4 August Humam’s lawyer Chowdhury Mohammed Ghalib told Prothom Alo that Humam had been going to attend the hearing of the case pertaining to the leak of his father’s hanging orders.

Around 11:45am he had been in his car near the Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge court, when three or four persons, identifying themselves as DB police told him they had an arrest warrant against him. He wanted to see the warrant but they simply took him away in a white microbus.

A working group of the United Nations on 25 February issued a letter to the Bangladesh government asking for a halt to the escalating number of abduction cases in the country.

Humam Chowdhury’s case was also mentioned in this note posted on the website of the office of the UN human rights high commission.