Noor Chy expulsion from Canada

Reports false: Law minister

Recent reports on the expulsion of Nur Chowdhury, convicted for killing the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Canada are false, law minister Anisul Huq said yesterday. Noor Chowdhury, a fugitive living in Canada, was tried in absentia and sentenced to death in the Bangabandhu assassination case. “Following recent reports in the Bangladesh media, the foreign minister spoke to me from New York. Our high commissioner (in Canada) has confirmed it is totally untrue,” the law minister said, while talking to journalists at his secretariat office in Dhaka.
“We contacted the Bangladesh High Commission in Canada to know about the matter. Our envoy told us that it is not true. The High Commission also contacted the Bangladesh desk in the Canadian foreign ministry, but couldn’t find any authenticity of the reports,” Huq said. Recently, reports appeared in the country’s media that Canada had cancelled an asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation.
The minister, however, said efforts are still on to bring him back. During her recent visit to Canada, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke to her counterpart, Justin Trudeau. The meeting was fruitful and the Canadian government is now considering ways to send Chowdhury back to Bangladesh, Huq added. Bangladesh has requested Canada several times to extradite Chowdhury, but Ottawa turned down the request, citing legal issues, Huq noted.
The Canadian legal system does not allow deportation of any foreign citizen who might face death penalty in the home country. The court awarded him the death penalty for the killing of Bangabandhu and most of his family members on August 15, 1975. Five of the killers 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.

Noor Chy expulsion from Canada

Reports false: Law minister

Recent reports on the expulsion of Nur Chowdhury, convicted for killing the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Canada are false, law minister Anisul Huq said yesterday. Noor Chowdhury, a fugitive living in Canada, was tried in absentia and sentenced to death in the Bangabandhu assassination case. Following recent reports in the Bangladesh media, the foreign minister spoke to me from New York. Our high commissioner (in Canada) has confirmed it is totally untrue, the law minister said, while talking to journalists at his secretariat office in Dhaka. We contacted the Bangladesh High Commission in Canada to know about the matter. Our envoy told us that it is not true. The High Commission also contacted the Bangladesh desk in the Canadian foreign ministry, but couldnt find any authenticity of the reports, Huq said. Recently, reports appeared in the countrys media that Canada had cancelled an asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation. The minister, however, said efforts are still on to bring him back. During her recent visit to Canada, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke to her counterpart, Justin Trudeau. The meeting was fruitful and the Canadian government is now considering ways to send Chowdhury back to Bangladesh, Huq added. Bangladesh has requested Canada several times to extradite Chowdhury, but Ottawa turned down the request, citing legal issues, Huq noted. The Canadian legal system does not allow deportation of any foreign citizen who might face death penalty in the home country. The court awarded him the death penalty for the killing of Bangabandhu and most of his family members on August 15, 1975. Five of the killers were hanged on January 28, 2010, after exercising all the legal procedures. Another six death-row convictsAbdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Noor Chowdhury, Moslemuddin, Rashed Chowdhury and Abdul Mazedare now hiding abroad. Their cohort, Abdul Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe, in 2001.