Английская Википедия:Adilur Rahman Khan

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Adilur Rahman Khan (Шаблон:Lang-bn; born 2 July 1961) is a human rights activist and the founder of Odhikar, a human rights organisation. He is a lawyer and former Deputy Attorney General for Bangladesh. Since October 2022, Adilur Rahman Khan has been one of the Secretaries General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Early life

Khan studied law at the University of Dhaka.[1] He was part of the democractic movement against Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad.[1] He has Masters in Law degrees from the University of Dhaka and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[1]

Career

Khan and several other members of civil society founded the human rights organisation Odhikar on 10 October 1994.[2][3]

Khan was appointed Deputy Attorney General by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami government.[4] In December 2005, he represented the government of Bangladesh in a ruling where the High Court asked the government to explain its failure to protect the judiciary bomb attacks by Islamist militants.[5] He resigned from the post on 14 May 2007.[4]

In 2013, a case was filed against Khan for 'spreading confusion' about the death toll in the operation to remove Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, an Islamist exremist organization,[6][7] leaders and activists during the 2013 Shapla Square protests in Dhaka.[8][9][10] On 10 August 2013, at 10:30 pm, Khan was detained by Detective Branch.[11] He was detained under Section 54 of the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 and denied division in jail.[12] Canada called for his release through the High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden.[13] Numerous human rights activists in Bangladesh called for his release.[14] Dipu Moni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided a briefing to diplomats in Bangladesh.[15] Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed of the High Court Division asked the government to provide division status in jail to Khan in September 2013.[16] In October 2013, He was released from jail after securing bail from Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader of the High Court Division.[17][18] In January 2014, Khan and Odhikar's director ASM Nasiruddin Elan, were indicted in case filed over its report on the 2013 protests.[19]

Khan was detained in Kuala Lumpur International Airport by Malaysian Immigration in July 2017.[20] He was deported back to Bangladesh the next day.[21]

In September 2023, Khan and Nasiruddin Elan were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 10,000 taka by the Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka in a case filed over inflating the death toll from the 2013 Shapla Square protests and government action to remove the protestors.[22][23][24] France and Germany expressed regret over the verdict.[25] Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ainjibi Forum, a lawyers body aligned with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, protested the verdict.[26]

Awards

References

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