Bangladeshi social media has been flooded with many posts indicating that the 31-year-old Islamic preacher might have fallen victim to Bangladesh’s string of state-sponsored enforced disappearances.
Inside a room full of journalists, Sabiqun Nahar's voice choked as she said: “I love him so much. Let him return to me. Or take me to him.”
Nahar went to the offices of the Detective Branch of police, and the Rapid Action Battalion —Bangladesh’s elite police force infamous for their involvement with many enforced disappearances in the country. Nahar even wrote a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, seeking her intervention in finding her husband.
“The Bangladeshi authorities must expeditiously investigate and disclose the whereabouts of Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan and his three companions. If they are in state custody, they must be released immediately or charged with a recognisable criminal offence,” he said. that law enforcement agencies are “investigating the disappearance of Adnan.”however contacted at least three police stations and found out that no progress in the investigations was made.
A few moments before he went missing, Adnan called his wife to tell her two people on a motorbike were following his car. “Pray for me,” is what he last said to Nahar. Bhuiyan said the fact that many police stations are not willing to file the case and the “wife of the abductee had to plead for justice is worrisome.” Some human rights activists in Bangladesh however hinted that Adnan’s disappearance might be a recent case of “state-sponsored enforced disappearance.”Human Rights Watch , From January 1, 2009, to July 31, 2020, at least 572 people have reportedly been forcibly disappeared by security forces and law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh.
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