Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... former officers, upheld their death sentences in the murder case. Bazlul Huda, Syed Faruk Khan, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed had appealed to have their death penalties commuted from behind bars. Another six convicts also sentenced to death in the case�Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haq Dalim, Noor Chowdhury, Moslemuddin,...
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Staff Reporter Four of the convicts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case, now languishing in the Dhaka Central Jail, will seek President's mercy. Lt Col Syed Farooq Rahman, Maj Bazlul Huda, Maj (Lancer) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Lt Col (Artillery) Mohiuddin Ahmed expressed their willingness to file the petitions while Lt Col Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan is yet...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... five convicts are Syed Faruk Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan. They, however, can seek to have the verdict reviewed by the Appellate Division. Justice Islam, in his six-minute delivery, upheld the verdict of the third High Court judge made in 2001. He said the convicts were not in active service during the killings and...
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... five convicts - Syed Faruk Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan-are in prison The five-member bench comprising Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, Justice Md Abdul Aziz, Justice BK Das, Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, and Justice SK Sinha passed the verdict dismissing the appeals filed by five convicts against their death sentences in...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Four of the five former army officers who were sentenced to death for killing 's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will seek the presidential pardon, jail officials announced Sunday. Lt. Col. Syed Farooq Rahman, Maj. Bazlul Huda, Maj. A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed and Lt. Col. Mohiuddin Ahmed expressed their willingness to file the petitions while Lt. Col. Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... five convicts are Syed Faruk Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan. They, however, can seek to have the verdict reviewed by the Appellate Division. Justice Islam, in his six-minute delivery, upheld the verdict of the third High Court judge made in 2001. He said the convicts were not in active service during the killings and...
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... five convicts are Syed Faruk Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan. They, however, can seek to have the verdict reviewed by the Appellate Division. Justice Islam, in his six-minute delivery, upheld the verdict of the third High Court judge made in 2001. He said the convicts were not in active service during the killings and...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... Bazlul Huda, dismissed Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruk Rahman, retired Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, retired Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed and retired Major A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed - await the gallows in Dhaka Central Jail. 'The death penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,' the rights' body said.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... The five convicts — sacked Lieutenant-Colonel Syed Farooq-ur Rahman and Lieutenant-Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lieutenant-Colonel Muhiuddin Ahmed, Lieutenant-Colonel A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed and Major Bazlul Huda (all retired) — who are now behind bars filed the appeals with the apex court in October 2007 against their conviction by the lower court. The judgment, which...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... sentences on the six fugitives.The five on death row are sacked army officers Syed Farook Rahman, Shahriar Rashid Khan, A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Muhiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda. Farook and his brother-in-law Rashid had pulled off an audacious stunt, sending tanks that did not have ammunition to surround Mujib’s house. The bluff worked and the guards froze in fear or fled....
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... officers, the condemned men are Lt. Col. (dismissed) Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Lt. Col. (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lt. Col. (retd) Muhiuddin Ahmed, Lt. Col. (retd) A.K.M. Mahiuddin Ahmed, Maj. (retd) Bazlul Huda, Lt. Col. (retd) Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Maj. (retd) Shariful Haque Dalim, Lt. Col. (retd) A.M. Rashed Chowdhury, Lt. Col. (retd) S.H.M.B. Noor...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... the apex court. Alam told the media later that he told the court that Syed Faruk Rahman and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan were 'self-confessed killers' of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. 'The video footage of the statement of the killers confessing to their involvement with the killing on then UK-based Granada TV came to Bangladesh,' Alam said. 'Apart from that, The Time, the Sunday Times...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... is on the run. It acquitted six former military personnel, including Syed Farook Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda and A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed of charges in what has come to be called the jail killing case. The anniversary was observed even as trial of the same accused in the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, carried out in August 1975 during a military-led mutiny,...
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
He was a partner of the assassination plot of Sheikh Mujib. Interestingly all of his sins were purified when General (retd) Shafiullah baptized to Awami Politics. Hasina did not any problem doing politics with the killers of his father and many of his family members. SH Toronto From: Isha Khan To: Dhaka Mails Sent: Tue, October 27, 2009 8:32:24 PM Subject: [ALOCHONA] SC terms Shafiullah coward...
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... for discussion during the hearings. The court came down heavily on Shafiullah when Abdur Razzaque Khan, the defense counsel for condemned prisoner Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, pointed out the evidence made by the then army chief. Adding fuel to the flames, Razzaque quipped: "Were Shafiullah not a coward general, he would have resigned from the army...
