Taher case: US journo likely here within two weeks
US journalist and writer Lawrence Lifschultz may come to Bangladesh within two weeks to place statement before the High Court over the trial and execution of Col Abu Taher, Additional Attorney General MK Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday.
“I have communicated Lawrence Lifschultz who had covered the trial of Col Abu Taher in 1976. He may come to Bangladesh to place statement before the High Court,” said MK Rahman.
On January 20, the HC bench requested Lifschultz, a former journalist of the Far Eastern Economic Review, to turn in a statement on the trial and execution of Taher.
Col Abu Taher was a sector commander of the freedom fighters during Bangladesh's liberation war. He was tried, allegedly for sedition, by a secret military court during the country's first martial law regime and sentenced to death in 1976. He was executed the same year.
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