AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

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What's Happening

Five years have passed since former BNP lawmaker M. Ilias Ali disappeared without a trace, and the law enforcers have failed to find him. Ilias Ali was an Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the time of his disappearance, along with his chauffeur Mohammad Ansar on the night of April 17, 2012. Police later found his car near his home at Banani, Dhaka.

Five years after the disappearance and murder of garment worker union leader Aminul Islam, his killers have not been brought to justice.


On March 30, 2017 body of Nurul Alam Nuru, a Joint Secretary of the Central Committee of Chhatra Dal , was recovered from the bank of Karnophuli River beside the Kholarghat Bazar at Bagoan Union under Raujan Upazila in Chittagong District. His family alleged that Nuru was picked up by some men claiming to be police from his residence at Chandonpura in Chittagong. Nuru’s nephew Rashedul Islam said that on March 2017 at around 11:00 pm, some men knocked the door. When he opened the door, about 8-10 police personnel of Noapara Police Outpost entered his uncle’s house and arrested Nuru. Later they handcuffed Nuru and took him in a white microbus. Police denied the arrest of Chhatra Dal leader Nurul Alam Nuru.

POSITION: Philippine Project Coordinator
LOCATION: Quezon City, NCR
DURATION: Project-based/Full-time

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