Chowdhury, sentenced to death in the Bangabandhu assassination case, is now a fugitive in Canada. The country's law does not allow deportation of any foreign citizen who faces the death penalty in his home country. Noor ChowdhuryThe court sentenced Noor Chowdhury to death for the massacre of the family of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Aug 15, 1975. Following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's meeting with her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau in Montreal last week, the Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihsanul Karim, told bdnews24.com that officials of the two countries would discuss ways of ensuring Chowdhury’s extradition to Bangladesh. The law minister, on Saturday has brushed aside the reports as 'totally false'.

Source: bd News24 September 25, 2016 07:52 UTC