Police "executors" in Bangladesh

Special envoy to Cox's Bazar

What is Noor Hafez thinking with a bag over his head? When Teknaf's police place him in the back of their car, does he think of his 3-week-old daughter? To his wife? He remembers how she stood up to the police: "Kill me first, kill the whole family, rather than take my husband!"

And Mohammed Sohel, 27? He too in this car. He too is in love with his wife. He too is the father of a very young baby. He was also handcuffed. Does he hear his breath accelerate on the wall of the bag?

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2:30 a.m., the procession sets off. The road is long and deserted, between the police station of Teknaf and Rongikali. It goes up the estuary of the Naf river. On the other side is Burma. Noor Hafez grew up there. He arrived here in southern Bangladesh eight years ago before the big wave of Rohingya refugees. Is he a fisherman as his wife says? A yaba dealer as the police claim? In 2018 authorities seized Bangladesh

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