Former Bangladeshi envoy Khairuzzaman nabbed in Malaysia

Malaysian immigration police on Wednesday have detained former Bangladeshi diplomat Mohamed Khairuzzaman, who has been living in Malaysia as a refugee in the past decade.

“The police arrested Mohamed Khairuzzaman, former Bangladesh ambassador to Malaysia and a recognised United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refugee, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur,” Director of Asia Desk of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Khairuzzaman, a retired army major, was named in the 1975 Jail Killing case chargesheet for his involvement with the killing of national leaders Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman in Dhaka Central Jail on November 3.

He was later acquitted and was appointed High Commissioner to Malaysia in 2007 during the caretaker government regime.