Justice Abu Sayeed's birth anniversary today
The 104th anniversary of the birth of a leading organiser of the War of Liberation, former president late justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, will be observed today (31 January).
To mark the day, a memorial meeting has been arranged at Nagbari Hasina Chowdhury High School in the district of Tangail.
Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury was born on 31 January 1921 in a family of Nagbari in the District of Tangail. He was the only son of the former speaker of the erstwhile provincial assembly, the late Abdul Hamid Chowdhury.
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Justice Chowdhury resigned as vice chancellor of Dhaka University on 15 March 1971 in protest of the killing of two students on the campus by the Pakistan occupation army.
Later on, he played a significant role in mobilising global opinion for the cause of Bangladesh as a special envoy of the provisional government. In 1985, he was unanimously elected chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission.
He authored five books on the Liberation War, Human Rights, and Law.
He donated large amounts of his properties to religious and academic institutions of different Upazilas of Tangail. In the eighties, he played a courageous role in the anti-autocracy movement.
Former minister of state for foreign affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury and ex-banker Lion Abul Kasem Chowdhury are his sons.
