Family members of victims of enforced disappearance on Wednesday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the interim government for arresting officials of law enforcement agencies involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance.
They gave the ultimatum at a human chain organised by Mayer Daak, a platform for family members of victims of enforced disappearance, in front of the National Press Club in the capital.
Earlier on Tuesday, a delegation of Mayer Daak met with the newly formed interim government’s chief adviser, Nobel laureate professor Mohammad Yunus.
Mayer Daak coordinator Sanjida Islam Tulee said that only three people had been released from a secret detention centre known as ‘Aynaghor,’ allegedly run by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.
She demanded the arrest of DGFI official Ziaul Hasan, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s military affairs adviser Tarique Siddiqui, and other officials involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance.
The protesters demanded immediate release of the victims and return to their families.
A day after the August 5 fall of Sheikh Hasina, former army brigadier general Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the second son of late Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam, Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem, the younger son of executed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali, and United People’s Democratic Front leader Michael Chakma were released from the secret detention cell of DGFI.
On the same day, families of enforced disappearance victims gathered in front of the DGFI office to know the whereabouts of their missing relatives.