Tureen afroz biography templates
Tureen Afroz
Bangladeshi lawyer
Tureen Afroz is a Bangladeshi lawyer and former senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal.[1][2] She was removed from the tribunal after allegedly meeting accused war criminal Mohammad Wahidul Haque.[3] She prosecuted cases against Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Ghulam Azam, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Motiur Rahman Nizami, and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.[4]
Career
Afroz became a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in [4] She started working as a lawyer in Australia in [4] She taught law at Western Sydney University and Monash University.[4] She joined BRAC University as an associate professor of school of law.[4]
Afroz was appointed prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal in February [4] She prosecuted the case against Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Ghulam Azam, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politicians.[5]
Afroz's mother Samsunnahar Taslim filed a complaint at Uttara West police station against her alleging Afroz evicted her and her son, Shahnewaz Ahmed Shishir, from their residence in Uttara on 2 March [4] She had evicted her family and other tenants of the building and filed a case against her own family in May.[4] Her family asked for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to intervene while she questioned the point of asking the prime minister for held regarding a judicial matter.[6]
In November , Afroz received a threatening phone call asking her to withdraw from the International Crimes Tribunal prosecution team in the war crimes case against Syed Mohammad Hussain, alias Hossain Daroga or Razakarer Daroga, of Kishoreganj District.[7][8] Hossain was a member of Razakar paramilitary unit and his father, Syed Musleh Uddin, was the leader of the Kishoreganj District unit of the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee and vice president of Pakistan Democratic Party in East Pakistan.[8] Hossain left for Malaysia on 21 May five months before the prosecution began against him.
Hossain was sentenced to death in absentia.[8][9]
Afroz sought the nomination of Awami League in to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections.[4]
Afroz was removed from all cases of the in May after some allegation of indiscipline was raised against her.[4]Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee also opened their investigation against her on allegations of meeting a war crimes suspect at a restaurant in secret.[10] Anisul Huq, Minister of Law, promised a quick resolution on the complaint against her.[11] On 11 November , the Solicitor Wing of the Law and Justice Division removed Afroz from the prosecution team after the Ministry of Law found evidence of her talking to a war criminal accused and telling the suspect the case against them had "no merit".[4][12] She denied allegations of meeting Mohammad Wahidul Haque, war crimes suspect, and taking money from him, and said she was not allowed to defend herself.[4][13] The allegations were raised by senior coordinator of International Crimes Tribunal's investigation agency Md Sanaul Haque.[4] Haque was serving in the Pakistan Army's 29th Cavalry Regiment during the Bangladesh Liberation War and charged with participating with the killing of hundreds in Rangpur.[14]
Afroz was the member secretary of Gono Commission of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.[15] She was part of a delegation led by AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik which submitted a list of Islamic leaders to the Anti-Corruption Commission which was condemned in a statement by Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh.[16] On 10 April , She joined a march of Sohel Taj to the Ganabhaban to demand 10 April, the day Mujibnagar government took oath, be declared Republic Day of Bangladesh.[17]
In January , Justices Md.
Salim and Md. Riaz Uddin Khan of the High Court Division stopped Afroz's case against her brother and asked her why the case should not be dismissed.[18]
After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Afroz's residence in Uttara was attacked.[19] She was assaulted and had her head shaved.[19] The attackers asked her to denounce the International Crimes Tribunal and asked why she was not wearing a hijab.[19] They jabbed a pencil in her thigh multiple times.[19] Her ancestral home and law office in Jaldhaka Upazila of Nilphamari District were vandalized.[20]