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.
Earlier in November 2021, Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy in a Facebook post detailed the rise of Khairuzzaman under the BNP-Jamaat government.
As per the post, Khairuzzaman was sent to Egypt in 1975, following the assassination of Bangabandhu and four leaders.
He served as the acting ambassador to the Philippines till 1996, a diplomat to Myanmar in 2005 and two years later he was made the ambassador to Malaysia.
Khairuzzaman was recalled to Dhaka after the Awami League-led government came to power in 2009.
However, the former diplomat managed to obtain the UN Refugee Card in Kuala Lumpur and continued to stay there.
