Bangladesh lodges ‘strong protest’ over diplomat’s arrest in New York

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Bangladesh has lodged a “strong protest” over the arrest of a diplomat in New York on charges of labour trafficking and assaults on his servant.

“We have reasons to believe that the arrest is a clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963,” the foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday night.

“We have lodged a strong protest with the chargé d' affaires of the United States Embassy in Dhaka,” it said, without explaining how the protest was lodged.

It just said Bangladesh conveyed its “concern”.

However, a foreign ministry official told bdnews24.com that the US Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission Joel Reifman was called in to the foreign ministry and explanations were sought from him.

New York police arrested Bangladesh's Deputy Consul General in New York Shahedul Islam, 45, on charges of forcing his servant to work for his family in Queens without pay and assaulting him on several occasions on Monday.

Bail was set at $50,000 bond or $25,000 cash.

Bangladesh’s Consul General Shameem Ahsan in New York, other colleagues and relatives arranged a $50,000 bond for Shahedul.

The foreign ministry said it has been brought to their notice that the deputy consul general was arrested on “accusations of mistreating his domestic aide”.

“We would like to state that we had earlier reported about the missing of the domestic aide.”

The domestic aide went missing about 13 months earlier -- on May 17, 2016 -- from Shahedul’s residence, according to the statement.

“The incident was immediately reported to the Department of State by the Bangladesh Consulate General in New York and also by the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on May 18 and 19, 2016 respectively.

“However, no update had been received on this matter from the Department of State before the arrest of Mr Islam,” said the foreign ministry.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington is in contact with the Department of State for resolution of the issue.

“We hope our concerns will be duly addressed. We will continue to monitor the situation and will extend assistance and cooperation as and when necessary.”

http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2017...ong-protest-over-diplomats-arrest-in-new-york

 

[kris]

They could have declared him person non grata
WTF is problem with Americans? Why do u need to arrest a diplomat!

 

[idune]

If this so called "diplomat" abused his domestic help then by all means should be punished. indian diplomat also faced same charge. This is not far fetch that he or his family is guilty. In place like NY, Washington and other important cities normally awami party thugs got appointed. Just week ago another awami party thug in London caused HC to be summoned to UK foreign office. Now let see how far awami league regime can push the envelop?

 

[bluesky]

Just week ago another awami party thug in London caused HC to be summoned to UK foreign office. Now let see how far awami league regime can push the envelop?

Do you think the indecent BNP people are from the Moon? It is same BD culture everywhere and in everybody.

 

[Banglar Bir]

If this so called "diplomat" abused his domestic help then by all means should be punished. indian diplomat also faced same charge. This is not far fetch that he or his family is guilty. In place like NY, Washington and other important cities normally awami party thugs got appointed. Just week ago another awami party thug in London caused HC to be summoned to UK foreign office. Now let see how far awami league regime can push the envelop?

Yes, he is definitely not a career diplomat rather a disgraceful Political appointee on contract service of Awami League cadre .
Kindly note that Consulates for rendering Consular facilities DOES NOT have full Diplomatic Immunity accorded to the office of the Ambassador/High Commissioners Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, rather known as Embassies/High Commissions.

 

[TopCat]

Yes, he is definitely not a career diplomat rather a disgraceful Political appointee on contract service of Awami League cadre .
Kindly note that Consulates for rendering Consular facilities DOES NOT have full Diplomatic Immunity accorded to the office of the Ambassador/High Commissioners Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, rather known as Embassies/High Commissions.

nobabzadar abar chakor lage??? tao abar amrica te...

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Americans are more than arrogant sometimes. I dont know. Wont their police/judges are so uneducated that they are not aware of Vienna Conventions? And he is a Deputy Consul General. Even Indian Police constables know better on such consular rules.

Pathetic.

 

[bdslph]

first of all its should be investigated but i know the salary part is true many countries they dont get paid
but to make the case on good ground the maid also put abuse and threats to him
so its hard to know if its true or not
if he has people who dont like him maybe they also can use this kind of maid theory

 

[SrNair]

Americans are more than arrogant sometimes. I dont know. Wont their police/judges are so uneducated that they are not aware of Vienna Conventions? And he is a Deputy Consul General. Even Indian Police constables know better on such consular rules.

Pathetic.

This why the most of earth hates this nation.
They did this to that diplomat because they knows BD cant do anything about it .Nothing at all.
Diplomats have Vienna protection.
They did same thing to one of our Consul General and we showed their place around in corner .
Against us it was just a testing of waters to knows our response .Because they knew that their would be repercussions from us and at the end they had to give up .
In this case they knows nothing that sorts will happen.

 

[Banglar Bir]

@Rajaraja Chola Kindly read before posting such ignorant remarks:

"The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963," an international treaty that defines a framework for consular relations between independent states. A consul normally operates out of an embassy in another country, and performs two functions: (1) protecting in the host country the interests of their countrymen, and (2) furthering the commercial and economic relations between the two states. While a consul is not a diplomat,they work out of the same premises, and under this treaty they are afforded most of the same privileges, including a variation of diplomatic immunity called consular immunity.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

@Rajaraja Chola Kindly read before posting such ignorant remarks:

"The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963," an international treaty that defines a framework for consular relations between independent states. A consul normally operates out of an embassy in another country, and performs two functions: (1) protecting in the host country the interests of their countrymen, and (2) furthering the commercial and economic relations between the two states. While a consul is not a diplomat,they work out of the same premises, and under this treaty they are afforded most of the same privileges, including a variation of diplomatic immunity called consular immunity.

Lol. Define Consul General from a diplomat? CAn you? Consular immunity varies from Diplomatic immunity in what?

Did you forget the line "They are afforded most of the same privileges?" Stop embarrasing ur own country. Faggot. Do you know what even is called Immunity? Most of them are immune to prosecution and arrests. They are the most basic rights given to them. And he is a Deputy Consul for God's sake. THe second highest ranking BD diplomat in New York.

This why the most of earth hates this nation.
They did this to that diplomat because they knows BD cant do anything about it .Nothing at all.
Diplomats have Vienna protection.
They did same thing to one of our Consul General and we showed their place around in corner .
Against us it was just a testing of waters to knows our response .Because they knew that their would be repercussions from us and at the end they had to give up .
In this case they knows nothing that sorts will happen.

We already threatened to arrest Italian Ambassador behind bars. Most of the extra immunity provided to diplomats are based on reciprocal basis. Good lesson for Americans on whom to mess with.

 

[SrNair]

Lol. Define Consul General from a diplomat? CAn you? Consular immunity varies from Diplomatic immunity in what?

Did you forget the line "They are afforded most of the same privileges?" Stop embarrasing ur own country. Faggot. Do you know what even is called Immunity? Most of them are immune to prosecution and arrests. They are the most basic rights given to them. And he is a Deputy Consul for God's sake. THe second highest ranking BD diplomat in New York.



We already threatened to arrest Italian Ambassador behind bars. Most of the extra immunity provided to diplomats are based on reciprocal basis. Good lesson for Americans on whom to mess with.

Actually there is no such high moral diplomatic values or conventions .Only might and that is right .
Would they dare to do this against China , India(after the earlier incident) ,Russia etc?
In our case we also expelled their diplomat dishonourably .

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Actually there is no such high moral diplomatic values or conventions .Only might and that is right .
Would they dare to do this against China , India(after the earlier incident) ,Russia etc?
In our case we also expelled their diplomat dishonourably .

I dont think we did. But what we did was pull out all favours US diplomats were enjoying in India without reciprocity. THey operated commercial places which were tax free. US diplomats Wives teaching in American schools were ordered to withdraw as they dont have the permit etc Taxes were re-imposed on every other thing they imported. Screws were tightened and when US requested them to be reinstated, India simply replied favours will be done only on reciprocity basis.

 

[SrNair]

I dont think we did. But what we did was pull out all favours US diplomats were enjoying in India without reciprocity. THey operated commercial places which were tax free. US diplomats Wives teaching in American schools were ordered to withdraw as they dont have the permit etc Taxes were re-imposed on every other thing they imported. Screws were tightened and when US requested them to be reinstated, India simply replied favours will be done only on reciprocity basis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...19deaf575b3_story.html?utm_term=.3b040bf5b9a4

We did .

 

[Skies]

Lol. Define Consul General from a diplomat? CAn you? Consular immunity varies from Diplomatic immunity in what?

Did you forget the line "They are afforded most of the same privileges?" Stop embarrasing ur own country. Faggot. Do you know what even is called Immunity? Most of them are immune to prosecution and arrests. They are the most basic rights given to them. And he is a Deputy Consul for God's sake. THe second highest ranking BD diplomat in New York.

"consular officers are not accorded absolute immunity from a host country’s criminal jurisdiction, they may be tried for certain local crimes upon action by a local court, and are immune from local jurisdiction only in cases directly relating to consular functions."​