MOFIZUL ISLAM RASHED

Mofizul Islam Rashed was the Senior Vice President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatradal-JCD, student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP, Darus Salam, Dhaka. 

Mofizul Islam Rashed’s wife, Marufa Islam Ruma, said that in the evening of April 4, 2013, her husband went for a cup of tea at the tea stall in front of Diamond Sweater Industries Limited near their home. Shortly after, the tea stall owner came and told Rashed’s parents that a group of three or four men wearing plainclothes with jackets that said DB-Detective Branch, had come to the tea stall, identified themselves as law enforcement, grabbed Rashed, and forced him inside a gray microbus.¹

Marufa said that she assumed Rashed had been arrested for his affiliation with the opposition party and that he would soon be shown arrested. But when she and his family went to the Detective Branch, other police offices, and the Rapid Action Battalion-RAB, Unit 4 office, officers all denied arresting him. Instead, they taunted her, insisting that perhaps Rashed was having an affair and had left her. On April 8, 2013, the family filed a general diary with Darus Salam Police Station, but the general diary-GD only stated that Rashed was missing because, Marufa said, the police refused to file a GD if it mentioned that law enforcement officers had taken Rashed away.

Mofizul Islam Rashed is still missing.