Salman Al-Azami
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Senior Lecturer in Language, Media, and Communication at Liverpool Hope. Edited book, 'Media Language on Islam and Muslims: Terminologies and Their Effects'.
Webinar link: hope.zoom.us/j/86231297004 4th MBRG Webinar: "Extremist, devout, moderate – changing representations of Muslims and belief in the UK press" By Professor Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
The individual in the photos is Major General (Retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, the security and defense advisor to Dictator Hasina. He is the brother-in-law of Hasina's sister, Sheikh Rehana, and the paternal uncle of British MP Tulip Siddiq. For years, this individual has been a key decision-maker for Hasina regarding security forces. Practices of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and secret prisons are attributed to his malevolent influence. With Hasina's downfall, this sinister figure has gone underground and is currently untraceable.
The very first thing, and I mean this must be the very very first thing that the new #Bangladesh interim government/army must do, is to release any secretly detained/disappeared person who remains alive. Many have been killed, but those alive should be immediately released. Some of these men may in fact be in some kind of secret army custody, so the army has to come clean now and release them
