War criminal Ghulam Azam's ex-army officer son whisked away from home by law enforcers, claim family

Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, son of Ghulam Azam, the Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue and orchestrator of crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, has been detained by law-enforces, claim his family.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 23 August 2016, 02:34 PM
Updated : 23 August 2016, 02:46 PM

Police, however, say they know nothing about the detention of the fourth son of Azam, who had been convicted and sentenced to 90 years in prison for 1971 war crimes.

The Jamaat supremo died while serving his sentence.
 
Dismissed Bangladesh Army Brigadier Amaan Azmi's brother Salman Azmi, who lives in the UK, told bdnews24.com by telephone that several men, identifying themselves from the Detective Branch, took his brother away from his Dhaka home on Monday.
 

"They entered his home and said 'You will have to come with us'. They did not produce an arrest warrant, neither did they say why he is being detained," said Salman, adding he was taken around 11:30pm.
A staffer of the house at the capital's Maghbazar, Zahed Ali, said, "Men in plainclothes have taken sir (Amaan) away."
Another staffer, Abul Kalam Azad, said the 'men from law-enforcing agencies' came in 18 to 20 cars.
"They also removed the CCTV cameras while leaving with him," said Azad, the manager of Amaan's mother, who lives on the seventh floor of the building.
Amaan lives with his family on the sixth floor.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesperson Masudur Rahman said they were 'not aware of the matter'.
"Several people have inquired about the matter...but we are yet to receive any complaint," said the deputy police commissioner.
He said they will investigate the matter if a written complaint is lodged.

Amaan's brother Salman said, "Our family are yet to decide about filing a GD (general diary). He was the only one among the brothers in Bangladesh. And we doubt that police will cooperate with us."

Amaan, sacked from the army in 2009, is the fourth among six brothers. His brothers live in the UK.

In 2015, he kicked up a social media storm by raising doubts about the number of 1971 martyrs.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Jamaat-e-Islami demanded Amaan's release and described him as a 'non-political person in retirement.'

"He is a law abiding citizen and his arrest is illogical as well as illegitimate," it reads.