This page links to the '2016 disappearances' main page, which is here.
Below are the details of 19 people whose families claim a relative was picked up by law enforcement authorities in 2016 and they remain disappeared - that is to say they have not been released, shown arrested, or their dead bodies have not been found. The information below is based on media news reports, human rights organisations and in some cases direct interviews with families.
Please note that it is not uncommon for men, who have been picked up to subsequently be shown arrested after some time, so this is an ever-changing situation - and some of these men may be released or shown arrested.
Also please note that it is very likely that are more people who are disappeared - but whose cases have not been reported.
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Abdullahil Amaan Azmi
Below are the details of 19 people whose families claim a relative was picked up by law enforcement authorities in 2016 and they remain disappeared - that is to say they have not been released, shown arrested, or their dead bodies have not been found. The information below is based on media news reports, human rights organisations and in some cases direct interviews with families.
Please note that it is not uncommon for men, who have been picked up to subsequently be shown arrested after some time, so this is an ever-changing situation - and some of these men may be released or shown arrested.
Also please note that it is very likely that are more people who are disappeared - but whose cases have not been reported.
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Abdullahil Amaan Azmi
Picked up on 22 August
According to his family, Azmi was picked up on 22 August from his family house in Mogh Bazaar in Dhaka. Azmi is the son of Ghulam Azam, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who died in jail in 2014 after an earlier conviction for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war. Azmi was dismissed from the army in May 2009, five months after the Awami League government came to power.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/concern-missing-sons-bangladeshi-politicians-160829095028714.html
Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem
Picked up on 9 August
According to his family, Quasem was picked up late at night on 9 August from his home in Mirpur in Dhaka. Ahmed is the son of Mir Quasem Ali, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who was executed on September 4 (whilst his son remained disappeared) following conviction for crimes committed during the country's independence war,
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/bangladesh-sons-convicted-war-criminals-detained-160811134823481.html
Hummam Quader Chowdhury
Picked up on 4 August
According to his family he was picked up on the morning of 4 August when his car was stopped at a crossing close to Dhaka's District court. Chowdhury is the son of former opposition BNP leader whose father was executed in 2015 following conviction for crimes committed during the country's 1971 independence war.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/bangladesh-sons-convicted-war-criminals-detained-160811134823481.html
Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem
Picked up on 9 August
According to his family, Quasem was picked up late at night on 9 August from his home in Mirpur in Dhaka. Ahmed is the son of Mir Quasem Ali, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who was executed on September 4 (whilst his son remained disappeared) following conviction for crimes committed during the country's independence war,
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/bangladesh-sons-convicted-war-criminals-detained-160811134823481.html
Hummam Quader Chowdhury
Picked up on 4 August
According to his family he was picked up on the morning of 4 August when his car was stopped at a crossing close to Dhaka's District court. Chowdhury is the son of former opposition BNP leader whose father was executed in 2015 following conviction for crimes committed during the country's 1971 independence war.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/bangladesh-sons-convicted-war-criminals-detained-160811134823481.html
Yasin Mohammad Abdus Samad Talukdar
Family claim picked up on 14 July
According to his family, Yasin Mohammad
Abdus Samad Talukdar, who has no political affiliation, was picked up on 14
July from the DOHS Benani railway crossing in Dhaka by law enforcement
authorities, whom local people thought were from Rapid Action Batallion.
Binchar Ali and Benjir Ali
Family claim picked up around 5 July
According to their mother, the two men were
picked up from their house in Jhenhaida along with their father, former army
sergeant Kawser Ali who is alleged to have owned the mess where Nibras Ali, one
of the Holi restaurant attackers, is said to have lived. The father was shown
arrested on 26 July, but the whereabouts of the two sons is not known.
Kamrul Islam Sikdar Musa
Family claim picked up on 22 June
His wife claims that on 22 June, a group of
plainclothes policemen went to the house of a friend in the Kathgar area of
Chittagong where she and her family were then staying and arrested her husband,
a sand trader who also sells bricks, close to the house. The police say that
they are still trying to arrest Musa who is suspected of involvement in the
killing of the wife of a senior police officer.
Rashidun Nabi Bhuiyan Tipu
Family claim that picked up on 19 May
According to the family, Tipu was picked up
on May 19 by men claiming to be from the detective branch of the police from
his house at Betagaon in Nangolkot in Comilla.
Abu Sayeed (35)
Claimed that picked up on 11 May
Abu Sayeed, a garment worker is alleged to
have been picked up by law enforcement officers from Gazipur on 11 May.
Bivas Sangma (25)
Family claim that picked up on 14 April
Sangma was a second year graduate student at
Tinani Adarsha Degree College in Jhinaigati. His family members claim that
sometime after 4:00 am on April 14, men who said that they were law enforcement
officials, with some of them wearing RAB uniforms, came to their house and took
Sangma away. He is related to Probhat Marak and Rajesh Marak who were picked up
on the same day (see below)
Probhat Marak (60),
Family claim that picked up on 14 April
Family members claim that Marak, a day
labourer, was picked up in by law enforcement officers from his home in Gajni
village in Sherpur. He is related to
Bivas Sangma and Rajesh Marak who were also picked up on the same day
(see above)
Rajesh Marak (22)
Family claim that picked up on 14 April
The family of Marak, a student at a private
university in Dhaka, says that her brother was picked up, by men claiming to be
members of law enforcement agency, from his elder sister’s house located near
Bhaluka College in Mymensingh.
Nur-e-Alam (22)
Family claim that picked up on 12 April
The family of Alam, a 3rd-year student in
the Chemistry department of Nilphamari Government College alleged on 12 April
that plainclothes dressed men, who identified themselves as people from the administration,
picked him up from his house.
Hadidul Islam (30), Johirul Islam (26), Ismail
Hossain (32), Ibrahim Hossain (25), and Amir Hossain (22)
Families claim five men were picked up on
24 March
Family members claim that on 24 March, law
enforcement officials, who said that they were from RAB (Rapid Action Battalion), picked up the five men
from two villages in Bhaluka upazila. About 30 to 35 people arrived in a number
of vehicles including two microbuses at Kashor Village and picked up Hadidul
Islam,30, and his younger brother Johirul Islam, 26 and the same group then
entered adjacent Jamirdia
Dubaliapara village and picked up Hadidul's brothers-in-law Ismail Hossain and Ibrahim
Hossain, 25, and their staff member Amir Hossain, 22
Sheikh Mohammad Moyajjem Hossain Tapu (28)
Family claim picked up on 26 January
Tape was president of 22 Ward of student wing
of the governing party the Awami League in Rampura in Dhaka and General Secretary of the student wing of
Awami League of Rampura Police Station unit. His family claim that on January
26 at around 11.00 pm, men who identified themselves as DB police picked Tapu up
from a flat in Bashundhara residential area, Dhaka.
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