Ahmed Ziauddin

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Ahmed Ziauddin is a lawyer and academic specializing in international law, living as an expatriate Bangladeshi in Brussels, Belgium. He is also the director of the Bangladesh Centre for Genocide Studies in Belgium, which campaigns to ending what he has called “the ingrained culture of impunity” regarding the war crimes in Bangladesh. To this end, he has been active in Bengali media as a campaigner for the tribunal as a member of the International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF).

He came to public attention in early December 2012 when the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal threatened to bring contempt charges against The Economist magazine. The latter are alleged to have hacked the emails and telephone conversations of the tribunal chairman, and Bangladesh Supreme Court justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq and Ziauddin. The Economist has denied hacking charges, but states that it has heard 17 hours of recorded telephone conversations and seen over 230 emails between Huq and Ziauddin. Prior this revelation, Ziauddin had averred, in an interview with The Economist, that he had “no relationship whatsoever” with court.