Syed Nazmul Haque, (; 1941 – 14 December 1971) born in the district of

Khulna Khulna (, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of the Khulna District and the Khulna Division. It is the divisional centre of 10 districts of the division. Khulna is also the seco ...

, was a martyred Bengali journalist.

Education and career

Syed Nazmul Haque passed B.A. (Hons) and M.A. in political science from

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka was founded in 1921 ...

in 1963 and 1964 respectively. He took active part in the anti-martial law movement in 1962. He was arrested for disrupting the convocation program on the DU campus in 1964 where the then governor of East Pakistan

Abdul Monem Khan Abdul Monem Khan (28 July 1899 – 13 October 1971) was a Bengali politician of East Pakistan who was the longest-serving governor of East Pakistan from 1962 until 1969. He was assassinated in 1971 at aged 72. Early life and education Khan wa ...

was present. He passed the superior service examination in 1967 and was selected for the information service. But because of the police case against him for disrupting the convocation he was not allowed to join the service. He later took up journalism as a full-time profession. He became the chief reporter of

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. He sent news items on the atrocities carried out by the Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh. On 6 August 1971 he was arrested in Dhaka and sent to a prison in West Pakistan. He was pressured to testify against

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangl ...

in a secret trial. On getting release in November 1971 he returned to Dhaka.

Death

On 11 December 1971, he was picked up from his Purana Paltan house by the members of Al-Badr. His dead body was never found. On 3 November 2013,

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin (; born 27 November 1948) is a British citizen convicted of war crimes committed during the Bangladesh War of Independence which involved the killing of intellectuals in collaboration with the Pakistan Army. After the l ...

, a Muslim leader based in London, and

Ashrafuz Zaman Khan Ashrafuz Zaman Khan (, ; born 28 February 1948) is a Pakistani Bengali cleric and a convicted mastermind of 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. In 1971, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Islami Chhatra Sangha. After the surren ...

, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Syed Nazmul Haque, nine

teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.

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Education and career

Death

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