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AS GOES SHOAIB CHOUDHURY, SO GOES BANGLADESH. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT.

The following is an excerpt from the article “Here is the Latest Information About Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury” written by Dr. Richard Benkin (for the full article please go to: www.InterfaithStrength.com ):

“Shoaib returned to court on August 31 for the trial’s third day. The government witness was to give his response to questions posed on cross examination. He did not show, and the prosecution filed a “time petition”: more time for the witness to respond. We should hope after five years of supposedly having the answers, three weeks plus was enough time. I urged that defense to oppose the move, but I am not sure what happens. Also, it is possible that the government wants to bend over backwards to show that it is not pushing the acquittal but if it comes, acquittal will be the result of the Bangladeshi law. Still, more time seems highly improper given all the time that has passed already.

The witness did show the next day, and the cross examination proceeded. The defense asked a number of questions that were designed to impeach the witnesses credibility. The questions focused on matters of fact that have been alleged, and the witness was unable to respond knowledgeably to any of them. On a matter critical to the prosecution’s case, the defense asked the witness for examples of words by Shoaib that “hurt the image of Bangladesh,” as he alleged in his previous testimony. He was unable to do so–which makes sense given the fact that Shoaib has not hurt the image of Bangladesh, that the nation’s Army Chief and others have stated publicly that there is a problem in the country of radical Islamist terrorists, and that the witness has been sent to parrot a series of false and unsupportable charges against Shoaib.

The trial has been going so well, and the judge has been quite professional throughout that Shoaib contacted me and expressed his happiness at the trial’s impartiality thus far. His attorneys also feel confident that the case is going very well according to Bangladeshi law. In fact, as I told several key individuals in the US and Bangladesh; an acquittal a this point only vindicates the Bangladeshi judiciary and indicates that it will continue to handle these cases with impartiality and professionalism. It is also becoming clear that this government offers far more in the way of justice than either of its political predecessors, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party or the Awami League. The next court date is October 5.”

Dear friends,

We received the following comment to the article “Why Are We Boycotting Bangladesh?” and found it so compelling that we decided to post it as an article. Our thanks to the author(s): Suffering Groups of Industrial Entrepreneurs of Bangladesh.

Suffering Groups [of Industrial Entrepreneurs of Bangladesh]:
August 27th, 2008 at 4:47 am e

APPEAL FOR JUSTICE TO SAVE FROM OPPRESSIVE LAWS

Dear Sir

From 1972 after independent many of the Bangladeshi Citizens started to Established Industries investing family resources & adopting innovative technology as self earner & to create job opportunity for million of unemployed person and to achieve economic freedom. And Government also started to help these growing PRIVATE SECTOR INDUSTRIES having fund from International Loan giving Agencies, through different Bank. From 1989.
But the Industrial Entrepreneurs becomes victims of deep rooted conspiracy .The Bank Official refrain themselves from ascertaining production capacity of imported machineries and to provide required working capital loan in time extending total non-cooperation, negligence or even to receive back their money if any Entrepreneur decided to pay back the loan amount..

Due to Such conspiracy & negligence’s , Non Banking Activities of Bank Official & Policy Maker, most of the these Industries became inoperative & have lost their Cash Capital, Expatriate Capabilities, and helpless victims of such deep rooted conspiracy having similarity to :
HISTORY WHICH REMIND US THAT THE HANDS OF THE TECHNICIAN OF MUSLIN FABRICS “ ,THE FINEST QUALITY FABRICS WHICH WERE EVER MADE IN BENGAL ONLY “ WERE CUT DOWN BY THE THEN COLONIAL RULER OF UNDIVIDED INDIA.”

In 1992 &1996 the Sick Industries Rehabilitation Cell were formed by GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH & have Identified and Registered these Industries as SICK INDUSTRIES declaring not as defaulter but victims of Violation of Contract, Negligence, Fraudulent Activities, Malpractices of Bank Officials including Policy Maker due to lack of Accountability .which are no more hidden matter . But unfortunately the SICK INDUSTRIES REHABILITATION CELL has are now closed. & have no power to help Industries of private sector

Industrial Entrepreneur of Bangladesh are completely deprive of Legal Right due to enactment of BANKRUPTCY ACT of 1997 and ARTHA RIN ACT of 1989 which were amended on 2003 and 2007 treating the INDUSTRIAL ENTRPRENEURS OF PRIVATE SECTOR as like as SLAVE of Primitive Age.

But these laws are not applicable in Nationalized Sector where Billions of Dollar are invested with no result.

LAW OF TORT MOST COMMON LAW even in neighboring countries not to speak of USA , EUROPE or AUSTRALIA, BUT NOT APPLICABLE IN BANGLESH YET DUE TO WHICH BANGLADESH HAS BECOME A HEAVEN FOR REPRESSION / EXPLOITATION BY BANK OFFICIAL AND POLICY MAKER.

The Owner of Industries under Private Sector can not CLAIM ANY COMPENSATION OR SET OPF on the Suit filed by the Bank Official or Loan Giving Agencies FOR VIOLATION OF CONTRACT, NEGLEGIENCES, MALPRACTICES, including fraudulent activities As a result NUMBER OF SICK / DISTRESSED Industries are increasing in Every Year due to lack of accountability of Bank Official / policy maker due to restriction as per SECTION NO 18 ( 2) & ( 3 ) of ARTHA RIN ACT of 2003 Bank Official / Loan Giving Agencies have been allowed total indemnity in all respect . These have been done to hide out existing high profile malpractices and corruption as per opinion of Expert Personals at organizational level .

Industrial Entrepreneur have no legal right to protect themselves from the oppression of Bank Official & Policy Maker which are no more hidden matter rather a part of deep rooted conspiracy till date

Bank official have given absolute Indemnity for Violation of Contract , Negligence Malpractices & Fraudulent Activities Industrial Entrepreneurs can file a separate suit for compensation in separate civil Court creating more complicacy for life long litigation WITH OF NO RESULT due to restriction to obstruct or resist any order / decree of ARTHA RIN ACT / COURT by any other DECREE OR ORDER OF OTHER COURT or even of by HIGHER COURT THE RIGHT OF EQUITY OF LAW HAVE COMPLETELY BEEN DENIED TO THE INDUSTRIAL ENTREPRENEUR OF PRIVATE SECTOR as per Section 12, 12 ( khan ) 18 ( 2 ) & (3 ) 19, 20, 21, 34,40, 41, 42, 44, 47 and 50 of ARTHA RIN ACT. WHICH ARE COMMONLY KNOWN AS OPPRESSIVE LAW and direct violation of ARTICLE NO : 8, 15, 26 and 27 of BANGLADESH CONSTITUTION ?

And similarly the Door of Higher Court have also been closed for the Industries Owner imposing terms for advance deposit of 50 % of decreetal amount by the ARTHA RIN COURT which are not applicable upon any Bank or Loan Giving Agencies. These are few example of oppressive laws how the citizen in Bangladesh are repressed, depriving legal right by the policy maker miss -guiding the innocent or ignorant vast majority of Citizen of Bangladesh to protect the interest of vested group

Now there are no other alternative way but to draw the kind attention of Concerned Authority Including International Community / Organizations seeking help to save & protect the OWNER OF SICK OR DISTRESSED INDUSTRIES OF Bangladesh under Private Sector, including their properties from such deep rooted conspiracy and oppressive laws as well to protect the interest of large number of workers, staffs of the Private Sector and also for CHANGE of such oppressive laws to restore Accountability of Bank Official / Loan Giving Agencies including Policy Maker to ensure for national interest.
( A ) - Our humble appeal before the Government of Bangladesh to kindly allow Industrial Entrepreneur to claim Set Off or compensation on suit filed by the Bank / loan Giving Agencies. or allow to Run Compensation Suit Simultaneously with suits file by Bank Officials under ARTHA RIN ACT -2003 with equal opportunity and equal right between Banks / Loan Giving Agencies and of Industrial Entrepreneurs keeping similarity with on going process of ECONOMIC and ADMINISTRATIVE ,REFORMS PROGRAMME OF Bangladesh to maintain balance of law .

( B ) - Or all suits of Artha Rin Court may kindly be transferred to Civil Commercial Court providing Equal Right and Opportunity to prove and fix up the actual responsibility .

(C)- The Identified and SICK INDUSTRIES of 1992 & 1996 may kindly be allowed 100 % weaver of all type of loan liabilities as the loan have been already Written Off in support the current REFORMS

( D ) - And the above mentioned SECTIONS OF ARTHA RIN ACTS should be abolished immediately to restore accountability & check existing Negligence , Malpractices & Fraudulent Activities of Banking Sector to secure accountability and reduce the increasing number of Sickness of Industries Every Year.
More surprising are in this moment around 40,000 thousand suits have been filed by the banks in the Court for recovery of bank loam of this poor country , but no body speaks why such large numbers of Industries in Private Sector are getting more & more sick in each year

( E ) – And Section 28 ( Ka ) of BANKING COMPANY of 2001 which explain WRITTEN OFF does not mean Weaver.
Which simply to misguide the International Community & Bangladesh National so as to serve the interest of the Vested Group

( F )- The system of mortgage of Land & Properties from the Industrial Borrowers by Bank or any Loan Giving Agencies should also be complete abolished at earliest possible time to ESTABLISH ACCOUNTABILITY and Check Malpractices, Fraudulent Activities which are now growing by large in Banks or other Loan Giving Agencies and a major reason of Industrial Sickness .

( G ) - It would be an extreme favors if your good self kindly collect the PRINTED COPIES OF THE ABOVE MENTION LAWS for confirmation of above mentioned .& to help the Suffering Groups by circulating this appeal among Honorable Member of your Organization and Partner’s Organizations & to Publish in WEBSITES or News Bulletin or News Media, Electronic Media of your territory to bring to the knowledge of Concern Authority including International COMMUNITY OR ORGANIZATIONS working for HUMAN RIGHT & FUNDAMENTAL / Democratic Right of People for immediate help and support to protect the Owner of the Sick Industries / Distressed Industries of Bangladesh and their properties from such OPPRESSIVE LAWS for which they all would be ever grateful as well for change of all types of oppressive laws restoring accountability at all organization

********* N.B. the Summery of above mentioned Section of Arthatha Rin Act at a Galance:

(A)- In section 18 ( 2 ) & ( 3 ) Defendant or Owner of Industries will not be able to claim any set – off or to make counter claim against the Bank or Bank Official nor will be allowed to claim any Compensation by submitting any Suit against Bank ( Plaintiff ) analogously or simultaneously in Artha Rin Court due to violation of contract, fraudulence activities including negligence, malpractices of Bank officials.
(B)- Section 21: Settlement Conference between Borrower and Bank is a misnomer of Law of Arbitration or just to divert the attention of common people in the name arbitration or to make everybody fool .
(C) -As Per Section 19 (6) of Artha Rin Act of 2003 no suits can be declared to be dismissed or discharged for default or above mentioned fault of Bank Official. As per Section 20 regarding any order or proceedings of Artha Rin Act can not be raised to Higher Court or to any Other Superior Authority without paying 50 % of claimed or Decretal Amount if the order is totally misleading or against any law or illegal one even .
(D) - As per Section 34 Defendant or the Owner of Industries in Artha Rin Adalat Case can be put to the Jail for compelling or forcing him to pay the Bank Money without considering the fault or negligence’s of Bank Official without allowing him to proof the matter of violation of contract, fraudulence activities , negligence, malpractices of Bank officials. V- As per section 41 and 42 -The Owner of Industries are not allowed to file any appeal or revision to High Court or Superior Court against any order of Artha Rin Court without paying 50 % of the claimed amount or Decretal amount in advance , But the Bank Official are not require to pay any amount in advance in the Higher Court, allowing A Great Disparity of Law and Justice.
(E) - Under section 47 and 50 , The learned Court under Artha Rin Act of 2003 have been bared to make any exemption of principal loan amount for Violation of Contract , Negligence’s Malpractices, including fraudulent activities or any fault of the bank official uni laterally

(F)- Section 12 ( Kha ) Imposed a bar for filling write petition to Higher Court which are direct violation of human right and constitutional right of the citizen and reflects the negative attitude of Policy Maker and the Law Maker .

Suffering Groups of Industrial Entrepreneurs of Bangladesh

Dear all,

Sohail Choudhury, Executive Editor
Email: EDIBLITZ@YAHOO.COM
WEEKLY.BLITZ@GMAIL.COM

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AS GOES SHOAIB CHOUDHURY, SO GOES BANGLADESH. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT.

Shoaib is due back in court on August 31st and September 1st, 2008, at which time he may be sentenced.

Additionally, he is now facing direct and ominous threats from the criminal owner of the Aparadhkantha newspaper who has attempted, twice, to extort large sums of money from Shoaib. When Shoaib refused he has begun an extraordinarilyvery and ongoing smear campaign against Shoaib and his publication WeeklyBlitz.net . He is now threatening Shoaib and his family directly and has published photos of Shoaib’s home, exposing Shoaib and his family to grave danger.

A few days ago an unknown intruder came to Shoaib’s home asking for Shoaib. He was told that Shoaib wasn’t there, at which time the intruder proceeded to film the entrance points to his house. When asked who he was, the intruder said he was a journalist working for the the Daily Manabzamin (a newspaper edited by the Voice of America correspondent in Dhaka). He even gave his cell phone number. However, when an inquiry was made it was learned that no such journalist existed with that newspaper, nor did they ever assign anyone to film Shoaib’s home. It was learned that the intruder was in fact from the Daily Aparadhkantha (Crime Voice), a newspaper known for blackmailing people. The intruder demanded TK.100,000 to be sent to the editor of Aparadhkantha, Rashedul Hassan, with the threat that unless the money is delivered there will be “dire consequences.”

Aparadhkantha’s owner is known for extorting money from people and maintains close links with notorious crime racket in the city and therefore their heinous actions are putting Shoaib’s life in real danger.

When Shoaib reported this incident to the police and asked for protection, he was refused. Since the intruder came, members of Shoaib’s family have been in complete terror.

This newspaper is running series of false campaigns against Shoaib with fabricated stories. It is assumed that members of Rapid Action Battalion [UNIT 3] might be behind such notoriety. RAb-3 men abducted Shoaib on March 18, 2008 at gun point and looted his office. Nothing was done about them despite several written complaints.

The fate of Bangladesh depends, in no small measure, on the fate of this courageous hero.

Please take a moment to scroll down and write the retailers listed below. Bangladesh relies, most heavily, on its exports, most notably garments and shrimp. The buyers of these products, therefore, have great pull with the Bangladeshi government. Please contact them and ask them to have all false charges against Shoaib dropped. If you have any questions please write me.

BUYERS OF BANGLADESHI GOODS AND SERVICES:

UNITED STATES:

Bob Walton
Chairman, Board of Directors
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 S.W. 8th Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72716
USA
Phone: 479-273-4000
Wal-Mart’s Global Ethics Office: ethics@wal-mart.com

Glenn K. Murphy
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Gap, Inc.
Two Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone: 650-952-4400
The Gap’s Board of Directors: board@gap.com
Corporate Compliance: corporate_compliance@gap.com

Philip H. Knight
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mark Parker
President & Chief Executive Officer
Nike World Headquarters
One Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005-6453
USA
Phone: 1-800-344-6453
Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Governance: nikeresponsibility@nike.com

Mackey J. McDonald
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Eric C. Wiseman
President and Chief Operating Officer
VF Corporation
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro NC 27408
USA
Phone: 336-424-6000
Corporate governance E-mail: corpgov@vfc.com

Emanuel Chirico
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
USA
Phone: 212-381-3500
Mark Fischer
Senior V.P, General Counsel and Secretary
E-mail: markfischer@pvh.com

Shoaib is back in court. The trial began on August 6, 2008 and continued on the next day. As you may know by now, on Thursday Shoaib’s lawyers cross-examined the plaintiff in this case, Mohammed Abdul Hanif, former officer-in-charge of Airport Police Station. Shoaib will need to return to court on August 31st and September 1st, 2008 for cross-examination. There are 20 witnesses against Shoaib, all planted by the government.

Generally, Shoaib must appear in court by 9:00am and stay till 4:00 – 5:00pm. The accused are not allowed to sit in the courtrooms, thus are forced to stand for hours and sweat in the extremely hot weather. There is no fan at the waiting portion of the courtrooms. Moreover, Shoaib is not allowed to drink water or eat anything all day.

On Wednesday, when Shoaib went to court, he had high fever, a severe headache and pain in other parts of his body. So he went inside the courtroom and sat at a back bench which is designated for members of press (Shoaib is a journalist). But the Additional Public Prosecutor, after seeing Shoaib seated, asked the police to remove him from the courtroom. He also mocked Shoaib and joked about him.

As you know, Shoaib is facing sedition, treason and blasphemy charges with which he was charged on December 24, 2004 (he was arrested on November 29, 2003). The charge was framed by the court on November 13, 2006, at which time the judge made the following statement:

“I, Md. Momin Ullah, Metropolitan Session Judge do here by accuse you Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury for the following reasons:

The State Prosecution has brought allegation against you, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury stating that, being the editor and owner of Blitz newspaper, you sent an article titled ‘Hello Tel Aviv’ to USA Today newspaper published from Washington. Furthermore, in 2003, while attempting to travel to Israel to attend a conference titled ‘Education Towards Culture of Peace, organized between 1st December to 3rd December 2003, you appeared at the Zia International Airport on the 29th November 2003 and the Immigration police arrested you and found the copy of the speech you prepared to deliver in the conference. In that speech, you have made offensive comments on Muslim world, Islam and Muslims in Bangladesh and commented about existence of Al Qaeda and other Islamist militant groups, by which you have tarnished the image of Bangladesh in the outside world. Furthermore, you have made conspiracy of spreading anti-state news through that speech and you by sending that speech to outside world, you have played offensive role to Bangladesh’s security, public discipline and adverse role towards Bangladesh’s relations with the outside world. In you report, you have mentioned about guerilla training in the Bangladeshi madrassas, by which you have influenced the religious sentiments and made imaginary stories abroad about jihadist training in favor of Laden, Arafat and Saddam, by which you have put Bangladesh’s foreign relations to threat and through this you have caused offense under Penal Code Section 505 (A), 295 (A) and 120 (B).

The allegations were read before the accused and he claimed to be innocent (not guilty) and prayed for justice.

Md. Momin Ullah
Metropolitan Session Judge”

Please note that although the judge refers to an article titled ‘Hello Tel Aviv’ which was reportedly published in USA Today, such article doesn’t exist. Moreover, Shoaib never wrote any article for USA Today. The entire case is based on mere imagination of the police, investigating officer and the Bangladeshi terrorist authorities. The main reason behind their anger is that Shoaib is promoting interfaith understanding, demanding relations between Bangladesh and Israel, and confronting radical Islam as well as Holocaust Deniers.

The trial will likely conclude in the next 2-3 months. If the judge will convict Shoaib, Section 120 (Sedition) entails the death penalty. On the other hand, the judge may convict Shoaib for a life term or for several years.

Weekly Blitz, of which Shoaib is owner and publisher, is the only Zionist newspaper in the Muslim world (www.weeklyblitz.net). It will continue its mission. Because of its editorial policy confronting radical Islam and culture of Jihad, local businessmen refrain from advertising in Blitz. But, some of Shoaib’s friends abroad occasionally support his newspaper through advertisement. If you can, please buy an ad at www.weeklyblitz.net .

BUYERS OF BANGLADESHI GOODS AND SERVICES:

UNITED STATES:

H. Lee Scott, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 S.W. 8th Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72716
USA
Phone: 479-273-4000

Bob Walton
Chairman
Board of Directors
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 S.W. 8th Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72716
USA
Phone: 479-273-4000

Glenn K. Murphy
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Gap, Inc.
Two Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone: 650-952-4400

Philip H. Knight
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Nike World Headquarters
One Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005-6453
USA
Phone: 1-800-344-6453

Mark Parker, President & Chief Executive Officer
Nike, Inc.
One Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005-6453
USA
Phone: 1-800-344-6453

Mackey J. McDonald
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
VF Corporation
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro NC 27408
USA
Phone: 336-424-6000

Eric C. Wiseman
President and Chief Operating Officer
VF Corporation
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro NC 27408
USA
Phone: 336-424-6000

Emanuel Chirico
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
USA
Phone: 212-381-3500

(Originally posted June 6th, 2008)

Shoaib had to appear in court on May 27th, 2008 at 10:00am as usual. In May he had two court appearances (on May 8th and 27th).

He spent hundreds of hours in court since 2003 (he was arrested on November 29th). This legal harassment is causing him considerable mental and financial constraints every month.

Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi government withdrew police protection from his residence on May 5th, 2008 and that protection never returned, even though Shoaib and his brother Dr. Richard L. Benkin were promised by many of the officials in the government, repeatedly, that they will arrange for police protection for Shoaib.

The law and order situation has deteriorated in Bangladesh, and members of Shoaib’s family have been in constant fear of attacks due to absence of
police protection.

Moreover, members of notorious Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] looted cash and valuables from Shoaib’s office when they abducted Shoaib on March 18th, 2008. Despite numerous promises from the government, the looted valuables had never been returned nor there has been any action against the culprit RAB men.

[Originally posted December 6th, 2007)

Bangladesh’s Goverment Revoked Shoaib’s Bail and Threatened to Shut Down His Publication - reported by The Weekly Blitz (www.weeklyblitz.net)

Information Advisor to the interim government, Moinul Hussain, sent a messenger, Nasir Sikder, to the Weekly Blitz office. Sikder, who identified himself as Hussain’s messenger, threatened Shoaib Choudhury with cancellation of the publication’s license and harassing Blitz editor, Shoaib, through the government’s TASK FORCE.

WE MUST RENEW OUR EFFORTS TO GET THE OPPRESSIVE ISLAMISTS OUT OF POWER BEFORE BANGLADESH JOINS THE LEAGUE OF TERRORIST STATES.

Please scroll all the way down to the list of retailers who purchase and sell goods from Bangladesh, write or call them and ask them to stop buying Bangladeshi products until all phony charges against Shoaib Choudhury are dropped.

LET’S GET THIS JOB DONE!

[Originally published October 7th, 2007]

Reliable sources inside Washington DC indicate that the Bangladeshi government has not been able to move its agenda forward with the U.S. because of its false persecutions of Shoaib Choudhury; in other words, there is no hope of any trade legislation. Those people said the Bangladeshi government should know that if it keeps up with this false persecution, it will continue to lose income and aid from the U.S.

Also, various Bangladeshi newspapers are reporting that Wal-Mart has cut its imports from Bangladesh. Wal-Mart is the largest importer of Bangladeshi goods, and at least one Bangladeshi paper suggested that Wal-Mart might stop ordering from Bangladesh altogether.

WE REMEMBER with respect and admiration the courageous Arabs and Muslims who have risked their life for speaking out.