Court declares Sadequee's deportation, handing over to FBI illegal
Thursday, 27 August 2009
The High Court (HC) Wednesday declared illegal the arrest, detention and deportation of Banglad-eshi-origin United States (US) citizen Ehsanul Islam Sadequee to the US from Dhaka without any extradition treaty between the two countries, reports UNB.
Delivering the judgement on a writ petition filed by Sadequee's wife, Happy Shahnaj, a division bench headed by Justice Shahidul Islam made absolute its rule issued on May 15, 2006 in connection with the unusual deportation.
Sadequee's wife filed the writ petition challenging the legality of her husband's arrest and whisking away to the US by American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
An FBI suspect as global Islamist militant, Sadequee (23) "has been detained in solitary confinement for three years in Atlanta since he was whisked away from Dhaka", his father Sarder M Sharif told the news agency after emerging from the court.
The young man came to Bangladesh on August 20, 2005 from the United States and married Happy Shahnaj, a BBA student at Stamford University and his first cousin, in March 2006.
On April 17, 2006, according to reports, newly-wed Sadequee was arrested by intelligence agencies and handed over to the American investigation agency from Kalachandpur Bridge police check-post near Baridhara DOHS in the capital.
The suspected militant was subsequently flown to the USA on April 21 by a specially chartered CIA plane sans any order from any court of Bangladesh.
The then BNP-led alliance government, the police and intelligence agencies kept mum about his disappearance at that time.
Senior advocate TH Khan appeared for the writ petitioner, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the government.
Delivering the judgement on a writ petition filed by Sadequee's wife, Happy Shahnaj, a division bench headed by Justice Shahidul Islam made absolute its rule issued on May 15, 2006 in connection with the unusual deportation.
Sadequee's wife filed the writ petition challenging the legality of her husband's arrest and whisking away to the US by American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
An FBI suspect as global Islamist militant, Sadequee (23) "has been detained in solitary confinement for three years in Atlanta since he was whisked away from Dhaka", his father Sarder M Sharif told the news agency after emerging from the court.
The young man came to Bangladesh on August 20, 2005 from the United States and married Happy Shahnaj, a BBA student at Stamford University and his first cousin, in March 2006.
On April 17, 2006, according to reports, newly-wed Sadequee was arrested by intelligence agencies and handed over to the American investigation agency from Kalachandpur Bridge police check-post near Baridhara DOHS in the capital.
The suspected militant was subsequently flown to the USA on April 21 by a specially chartered CIA plane sans any order from any court of Bangladesh.
The then BNP-led alliance government, the police and intelligence agencies kept mum about his disappearance at that time.
Senior advocate TH Khan appeared for the writ petitioner, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the government.