International Crimes Research Foundation from UK has sent us following press release regarding the recent incident in Bow Road, London:
Press Release
On the 1st of March 2016 ICR Foundation’s London-based members Barrister Nijhoom Majumder, Ajanta Deb Roy, Kamrul Hasan and Mohammed Bappi Chowdhury, attended a meeting arranged by Gonojagoron Moncho inside a restaurant at Bow Road for their upcoming event on 26th March.
However unbeknownst to them, a few unsavoury individuals were covertly snapping photos and videos of our members. Upon discovering what they were doing, members of the ICR Foundation and Gonojagoron Moncho present there, chose to approach and question the men about their actions. Once they’d caught up with them one of the men roughly shoved aside two of our members and fled the scene immediately. Afterwards, our members sought the help of the British Metropolitan Police who came in and arrested the remaining perpetrator.
The ICR Foundation is perturbed and a little concerned by this incident, to say the least. Recent times have seen the blogger murders rise to a fever pitch in Bangladesh and many of our members, in fact, are under the cosh from credible death threats. We have expressed our concerns before on this matter and have notified the law enforcement authorities of these distresses. It is important to mention that all the individuals who were present at that meeting on 1st March were all simultaneously activists and respected members of the Gonojagoron Moncho UK as well.
Every one of our members scattered across different corners of the world has been in constant contact with the law enforcement authorities in their respective geo locations regarding these issues. And safe to say they have received the appropriate amount of attention and security without question. However if these matters are not dealt with swiftly, unlawful incidents such as the one in Bow Road might continue to grow in number.
The incident in Bow Road is the start of a daunting pattern which matches the murder of all others blogger conducted by the Islamic extremist in Bangladesh thus far. They were first followed, their routines memorized and then the lives were snuffed out of them at times outside their houses (at times inside their homes even), their workplaces, or on the open streets and so on. These sorts of activities are in direct violation of the rules and regulations set forth by the UK and EU.
Again we’d like to reiterate our anxiety on this whole affair at Bow Road. We urge that the British Metropolitan Police dig deeper as to why selected members of our organization were followed, and make swift decisions to settle the matter.
International Crimes Research Foundation
5th March 2016
