A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 22 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted threatened Ms S. S. S. and her husband Atiur Rahman, who is also her lawyer, with death if they continue to pursue criminal action against the alleged perpetrators. 12. 11/09/06 AL TOR; A. F. M. Bahauddin Nasim, aged 45, an aide to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dhaka. On 28 February 2002 around midnight, as he was waiting for a flight at Zia International Airport, he was taken and detained in the office of the immigration police. Around 3am, a plain-clothes police officer, who identified himself as belonging to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), accused him of being wanted in connection with the attack on the motorcade of the then leader of the opposition Ms Khaleda Zia (current Prime Minister). When Mr Nasim requested to see the arrest warrant, he was told that the necessary documents would be provided later. A few hours later, he was taken to the CID headquarters, Malibagh. He was forced to sign some blank papers. Until late in the evening, he was unable to inform his family of his whereabouts, or have contact with a lawyer. He was removed from the police station, taken first to the roof, then by the back door, and transported to the court. He was charged with smuggling foreign currency out of the country, as well as the attack against Ms Zia's motorcade, and placed in remand for ten days. The following morning he was taken by a group of Government Response