Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin 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.
20 Facts About Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin is a founder of the Islamic Forum of Europe, and a trustee and former chairman of Muslim Aid, and a director of Muslim spiritual care provision in the United Kingdom's National Health Service.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has been accused of war crimes prior to the establishment of the ICT.
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In 1971, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was a journalist at the Daily Purbodesh.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin fled Bangladesh shortly after its independence in 1971, and went to the United Kingdom via India, Nepal and Pakistan In the United Kingdom he was able to create a new life.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was a special editor of the London-based weekly Dawat and a leader of the London-based Jamaat organisation Dawatul Islam.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin is a director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, a member of Multi Faith Group for Healthcare Chaplaincy, and a trustee of Muslim Aid.
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Since moving to the UK in the early 1970s, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has taken British citizenship and built a career as a community activist and Muslim leader.
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Until 2010 Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was vice-chairman of the controversial East London Mosque, controlled by the IFE, in which capacity he greeted Prince Charles when the heir to the throne opened an extension to the mosque.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was closely involved with the Muslim Council of Britain, which has been dominated by the IFE.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has been closely involved in the Markfield Institute, the key institution of Islamist higher education in the UK.
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In 2012, Bangladesh law minister Shafique Ahmed stated that Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin would be charged for war crimes.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin is accused of being a top member of the notorious paramilitary force Al-Badr and of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami political party, which fought for the country to remain part of Pakistan.
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The widow of another victim, claims that Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was in the group that abducted her husband, Sirajuddin Hussain, another journalist, from their home on the night of 10 December 1971.
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The vanished journalist's brother, Dulu, said he appealed to Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin for help and was taken around the main Pakistani Army detention and torture centres by Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin.
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Dulu Mostafa said that Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin appeared to be well known at the detention centres, gained easy admission to the premises and was saluted by the Pakistani guards as he entered.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin denied the charges in an interview aired by Al Jazeera in August 2013.
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The tribunal said that Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin sometimes carried out the murders, and sometimes instigated and encouraged them.
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However, the political motivation against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin is unclear as he is living in the UK for more than 40 years.
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Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin further alleged "serious judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and the collusion of the Government with members of the judiciary and prosecution", and condemned the entire trial as a "show trial".