Talks on to bring Noor back
Anisul Huq says about the Bangabandhu killer staying in Canada
Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said Bangladesh was holding talks with Canada as there was a way to bring back Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's self-confessed killer Noor Chowdhury.
The “way” cannot be disclosed at this moment and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who talked to the Canadian government on Noor's deportation during her visit, would disclose details upon her return, he said.
Anisul was talking to journalists on attending as chief guest the inauguration of a training course for 45 joint district judges at Judicial Administration Training Institute in the capital.
Replying to a question, he said a Canadian law barred sending convicts back to countries to face death sentences. Anisul urged lower court judges to work with sincerity and honesty to establish the rule of law and justice.
On Saturday, he said recent media reports, claiming that Noor's asylum plea had been cancelled while his deportation ordered, were false.
Among the killers of Bangabandhu and most of his family members, five were hanged on January 28, 2010.
Six death-row convicts -- Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Noor, Moslemuddin, Rashed Chowdhury and Abdul Mazed -- are now hiding abroad. Their cohort Abdul Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe in 2001.