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Mohiudding AKM Ahmed v Attorney General

By Adnan Karim

One of the convicts in the coup and assassination of the founding President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been deported from United States to Bangaldesh. This is the fifth case of bringing in the convicts of the case. After arrival, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate sent him to jail.

Lt Colonel (retd) Mohiuddin was deported after his appeal against deportation order was refused by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. While considering the appeal, the court found that Ahmed is ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal for two reasons, because he engaged in terrorist activity and because he assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of others on account of their political opinion.Furthermore, the court also found that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his in absentia murder trial and conviction in Bangladesh was fundamentally unfair and thus deprived him of due process of law. His application for asylum in Canada was also turned down.

Full post as published by Law Chronicles Online on June 18, 2007 (boomark / email).