Turin Afroz
Turin Afroz said>”I respect the law. I want justice for what has been done to my feet.
Barrister Turin Afroz, a former prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, cried in the courtroom before the hearing on the application to show his arrest in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The hearing was held at the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Turin Afroz was captured in a strike on a house in Uttara on the night of April 7.
The court allowed Turin Afroz a four-day remand on April 8 in the case of endeavoring to kill a understudy named Abdul Jabbar amid the anti-discrimination understudy development. After the remand, he was sent to imprison on April 12.
Then on April 21, he was shown arrested in the murder case of Anwar Hossain Patwary, who was shot dead in the Gol Chattar area under Mirpur police station.
Meanwhile, on April 17, Uttara Paschim Police Station SI Sajib Hasan applied to show Turin arrested in a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The court adjourned the hearing to April 23.
Turin was produced in the court this morning. She was brought to the court with the help of a female police officer. She was wearing a helmet and bulletproof jacket. She was seen smiling, as the court proceedings had not yet begun.
Standing in the dock, Turin spoke to former IGP Shahidul Haque. Later, she spoke to Hasanul Haque Inu. She was seen crying.
Hasanul Haque Inu, Shahidul Haque and banned organization Chhatra League leader Tanvir Hasan Saikat consoled Turin.
At that point the court procedures started. To begin with, a hearing was held on the application to appear the capture of previous Dhaka North City Enterprise Leader Atiqul Islam in two partitioned cases of Uttara Paschim Police Station. At that point a hearing was held on the application to appear the capture of Turin Afroz.
Her attorney Mohammad Selim told the court, “Turin Afroz has been tormented. She needs to say something.
Taking the judge’s permission, Turin Afroz said, “I respect the law. I want justice for what has been done to my feet.”
“I never had a political position or title. I only performed professional duties. I am physically ill. I cannot walk. I am desperately seeking justice.”
Later, Public Prosecutor (PP) Omar Farooq Farooqi said, “What they are saying is not true. They are trying to twist this incident by telling lies. They are creating panic in the court.”
Then Turin Afroz showed the judge the marks of torture on his feet.
After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman granted the application to show him arrested.
Later, Turin was taken to the jail under police guard. He did not say anything during this time.
The statement of the Anti-Terrorism Act case filed against Turin states that a laptop and mobile phone used by him were seized during his arrest from a house in Uttara on the night of April 7. After checking the mobile, he used them as a member and admin of various groups on the Telegram app, including ‘Chittagong to Bangabandhu’, ‘Dhanmondi No. 32’, ‘Bangabandhu Reserve Force (Gopalganj District)’, ‘We are Trinamool Awami League’.
The case alleges that Turin Afroz ‘opened various groups on his laptop and mobile and spread provocative propaganda and propaganda for terrorist activities to destabilize the state and destroy the state’s infrastructure through social media. Challan’.
Lawyer Turin was the prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, which was formed in 2010 to try war crimes. He played a role in handling several important cases, including the case of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Ghulam Azam.
The then Awami League government removed Turin from the post of prosecutor of the tribunal on November 11, 2019, over a secret meeting with Muhammad Wahidul Haque, former Director General (DG) of the National Security Intelligence Service (NSI) and Passport Department, during the ongoing war crimes case against him.
Turin had sought the Awami League’s nomination to contest the 2018 parliamentary elections. After the government was overthrown in a coup in August last year, several cases were filed against him, like many close to the Awami League.
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