Staff Reporter :
Despite the constitutional bar, there is a way to bring Noor Chowdhury back to the country from Canada, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.
Law Minister expressed this opinion to the reporters after attending the inauguration of a training course for joint district judges as chief guest at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in the capital.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina talked with her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau regarding Noor Chowdhury’s deportation during their bilateral meeting, said the Minister adding that details about the way will be disclosed after she return home.
Replying to a quary, the minister told the reporters that there was a law in Canada which does not permit the government to send the death row convict back to a country where there is a provision of death sentence.
On Saturday, the Minister said the recent media report about the repatriation of Noor Chowdhury from Canada was false.
Recently a report appeared in the media that Canada has cancelled an asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation. The reporters enquired the Minister about steps taken by the Bangladesh government to bring back the killer.
Among the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, five were hanged on January 28, 2010.
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 Zimbabew in 2001.
Despite the constitutional bar, there is a way to bring Noor Chowdhury back to the country from Canada, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.
Law Minister expressed this opinion to the reporters after attending the inauguration of a training course for joint district judges as chief guest at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in the capital.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina talked with her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau regarding Noor Chowdhury’s deportation during their bilateral meeting, said the Minister adding that details about the way will be disclosed after she return home.
Replying to a quary, the minister told the reporters that there was a law in Canada which does not permit the government to send the death row convict back to a country where there is a provision of death sentence.
On Saturday, the Minister said the recent media report about the repatriation of Noor Chowdhury from Canada was false.
Recently a report appeared in the media that Canada has cancelled an asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation. The reporters enquired the Minister about steps taken by the Bangladesh government to bring back the killer.
Among the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, five were hanged on January 28, 2010.
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 Zimbabew in 2001.
