Background of the case: Salah Uddin Shoaib
Choudhury was arrested on 29th November 2003 on his way to Israel
for attending a peace conference organized by the Hebrew writers association at
the University of Tel Aviv. Choudhury was tortured for seventeen days in police
custodies and later the government brought sedition, treason and blasphemy
charges for writing against religious extremism & jihad for combating Anti-Semitism
for advocating interfaith harmony and for demanding relations between
Bangladesh and Israel. He was also accused as a spy of MOSSAD. After tortured
in custody, Choudhury was sent to a solitaire consignment at Dhaka Central Jail,
where he was imprisoned for long 17 months until in Chicago based rights
activists, Dr. Richard l Benkin brought the case of Choudhury to the attention
of US congressman Mark Steven Kirk (Now senator from Illinois) Choudhury was
released from prison on 30th April 2005 as US congress passed a
resolution HR64 in favor of Choudhury. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury received
freedom to write award from pen USA and moral courage award from American
Jewish Committee as well as Monaco media award alongside many other national
and international awards.
Eminent Jurists of international repute Dr.
Irwin Cotler; ESQR is one of the defendants of Choudhury, who in a legal brief
pointed out no legal ground of the case.
After his release in 2005, Choudhury continued
his works in favor of Israel and against Jihad through WEEKLY BLITZ newspaper.
CPJ, RSF, AJC spoke in favor of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury while Amnesty International
and the United Nations remain silent in protesting this injustice on the Muslim
Zionist editor.
Choudhury was arrested again on 8th
November 2012 and since then he is in prison. On January 9th 2014 a
Dhaka court sentenced him with 7 years rigorous imprisonment for advocating in
favor of Israel and for writing against jihad. CPJ,
RSF
& AJC
has condemned the court verdict. Although Bangladesh government proclaims to be
Anti-Jihad it has convicted Shoaib Choudhury to appease Jihadist and Anti-Semitic
forces.
Since his arrest on 8th November 2012
there had been numerous attempts of blocking the online edition of BLITZ. Even
government agents threatened local lawyers of Mr. Choudhury resulting which his
long time defense council Govinda Chandra Pramanik and Samarendra Nath Goswami
suddenly refrain from appearing in the trial courts.
The Metropolitan Session Judge Zahurul Hoque
and Public Prosecutor Shah Alam Talukder had been over enthusiastic in
convicting Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury as beware constantly pressurize by a
section of influential figures in the government including the military intelligence
DGFI at this crucial stage when Choudhury’s lawyers were refraining from
appealing in the court Advocate Prokash Ranjan Biswas and his associates
defended Choudhury. The court was not willing to neither hear the defense
council nor ware seen legal remedy of the false case. Rather the court was
determined in convicting Choudhury as being as by the influential figures in
the government.
At this crucial stage, being sentenced with
rigorous imprisonment for 7 years, Choudhury and his family seeks your support.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has to work 8 hours in the Jail as part of the
conviction with no holidays. The authorities intentionally are forcing him with
very hard manual work.
Please protest this injustice on the Muslim
Zionist and write to your elected representatives, Heads of states, the United
Nations and people you know in the media for raising voice loud enough asking
Bangladesh government to cancel the conviction order and set Salah Uddin Shoaib
Choudhury FREE!
Please know, even after conviction of
Choudhury a very influential figure in the government is using state machinery
in obstructing his defense lawyers from filing appeal against the verdict with
the high court division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. The same person is also
trying to suffocate voice of Weekly Blitz. As because of such evil persuasion
the matter of convicting Choudhury was well circulated in the court area weeks
before it was pronounce in the court.
You also can send your protests against the
court order and rigorous imprisonment of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury by
reaching any of the Bangladesh Missions abroad: USA,
UK,
India,
Germany,
UN,
Singapore, Nepal, Thailand, Switzerland, Canada, France, Australia.
Kindly invite all of your friends to join this
important mission setting Muslim Zionist editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
FREE FROM THE PRISON.