TDS Desk

Seven individuals associated with Islami Chhatra Shibir have filed allegations of abduction and torture with the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the International Crimes Tribunal.

The complaints, submitted on Sunday morning at the tribunal’s office in the old High Court premises, accused 53 individuals, including members of law enforcement agencies, and activists of Awami League, Jubo League, and Chhatra League.

Among the complainants, six were present at the tribunal, while the family of the seventh person, who remains missing, filed the allegation on his behalf.

The complainants include Rajshahi University Shibir activist Md. Jony Islam, Chattogram’s Banshkhali Shibir member Md. Abdul Karim, Rangunia Shibir activist Md. Saiful Islam, former Shibir president of Dhaka’s Vatara Thana Md. Nurul Amin, and former Shibir president of a union in Jhenaidah Sadar Md. Kamaruzzaman. The other complainants are Md. Alamgir Hossain of Sherpur, Bogura, and Md. Delwar Hossain of Noakhali.

Speaking to journalists after filing the complaints, Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Legal Affairs Secretary Abdullah Al Noman said that the seven allegations documented cases of severe torture, with four victims left permanently disabled. Two individuals were abducted and later returned — one after three and a half years and the other after three and a half months. However, Kamaruzzaman, who went missing in 2017, remains unaccounted for.

Noman stated that the allegations were submitted individually on behalf of each victim. He further revealed that with these new complaints, a total of 17 allegations have been filed with the tribunal with Shibir’s assistance, of which 16 involve Shibir activists, and one pertains to a general student.

“We demand that the perpetrators of these acts of torture and disappearance be brought to justice and that the missing persons be returned to their families,” Noman said on behalf of Islami Chhatra Shibir.