International Law

The prisoner of Dhaka

By John Hirst

This illegal incarceration should be a global cause celebre, but instead there is a shameful silence

"There is a decent, brave man sitting in a dungeon in a country where the British empire began - a country of poets, singers, artists, free thinkers and petty tyrants. I have known him since a moonless night in 1971 when he led me clandestinely into what was then East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh, past villages the Pakistani army had raped and razed. His name is Moudud Ahmed and he was then a young lawyer who had defended the Bengali independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman".

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).