Syed Nazmul Haque, ( bn, সৈয়দ নাজমুল হক; 1941 – 14 December 1971) born in the district of

Khulna Khulna ( bn, খুলনা, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of Khulna District and Khulna Division. Khulna's economy is the third-largest in Bangladesh, contributing $53 b ...

, was a martyred Bengali journalist.

Education and career

Syed Nazmul Haque passed B.A. (Hons) and M.A. in political science from

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

in 1963 and 1964 respectively. He took active part in the anti-martial law movement in 1962. He was arrested for disrupting the convocation program on the DU campus in 1964 where the then governor of East Pakistan

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was present. He passed the superior service examination in 1967 and was selected for the information service. But because of the police case against him for disrupting the convocation he was not allowed to join the service. He later took up journalism as a full-time profession. He became the chief reporter of

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. He sent news items on the atrocities carried out by the Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh. On 6 August 1971 he was arrested in Dhaka and sent to a prison in West Pakistan. He was pressured to testify against

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in a secret trial. On getting release in November 1971 he returned to Dhaka.

Death

On 11 December 1971, he was picked up from his Purana Paltan house by the members of

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. His dead body was never found. On 3 November 2013,

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin ( bn, চৌধুরী মঈনুদ্দীন; born 27 November 1948), is a war criminal convicted for the killing of Bengali intellectuals in collaboration with the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberati ...

, a Muslim leader based in London, and

Ashrafuz Zaman Khan Ashrafuz Zaman Khan ( bn, আশরাফুজ্জামান খান, ur, ; born February 28, 1948) is one of the convicted masterminds of 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. In 1971, he was a member of the Central Committee of the I ...

, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Syed Nazmul Haque, nine

teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.

References

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Education and career

Death

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