Aminul Haque (4 April 1931 – 13 July 1995) was a Bangladeshi lawyer. He served as the

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. He was married to Farida Akhter (d. 2007), a faculty member at

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. He was the eldest brother of Sergeant Zahurul Haq, who was accused in the

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and killed by the

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in 1969.

Career

Haque was one of the founding members of Ain-O-Salish Kendra, a non-government, civil rights and legal aid organization in Bangladesh.

References

1931 births 1995 deaths People from Noakhali District Attorneys general of Bangladesh 20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers {{Bangladesh-bio-stub