बांग्लादेश में हसीना की सीक्रेट जेल ‘आईना घर’ अब खाली: कैदियों को घंटों उल्टा लटकाते थे, पिलास से नाखून उखाड़ते थे

There is a secret prison called Aina Ghar in Mirpur of the capital Dhaka. 600 prisoners were kept in it.

Barrister Ahmed, son of Jamaat-e-Islami’s big leader Mir Qasim, suffered atrocities in Aaina Ghar for 8 years. Ahmed says that every day felt like the last day of his life. He did not know anything about the outside world.

When some leaders of the student movement were brought here, it was learnt from whispers that something was going on against the government. On 7 August, I was scared by the loud noises in Aaina Ghar. At first I thought that the torturers had come, then I was told that soon we would get freedom from here.

At first I could not believe it, but then one by one the prisoners were released. When I was released after the medical examination and reached home, my family could not believe that I was alive.

The prison cells of Aaina Ghar are now empty.

Opponents were kept imprisoned in a secret jail
After the coup in Bangladesh, some shocking stories are coming to light from the era of former PM Sheikh Hasina. In the Mirpur jail of the capital Dhaka, anti-Hasina leaders, officers and journalists were kept in a secret jail called ‘Aina Ghar’.

There were 600 prisoners in this jail which was run under the supervision of the Army’s Intelligence Wing. After Hasina left the country on 5 August, when the prisoners were released from this jail till 10 August, there were only 100 prisoners there. The whereabouts of the 500 prisoners are not known.

Mohammad Atiq, vice president of Chhatra Dal, the student wing of opposition party BNP, while talking to Dainik Bhaskar on Monday said that Aaina Ghar was like hell. The horrifying memories of Aaina Ghar still terrify the heart.

They were hung upside down for hours, their nails were pulled out
In the mirror house built in Mirpur in Dhaka, prisoners were kept surrounded by 20 feet high walls. Three prisoners were kept in each cell. Sunlight did not fall here. On the big platform in the middle of the round cell, prisoners were given such inhuman tortures that cannot even be described.

Atiq said that the prisoners’ nails were pulled out with a pliers. They were hung upside down for hours. Atiq, who was arrested during the student movement, was released on 8 August after being imprisoned for about one and a half months.

After the coup, on 9 August, Major General Zia-ul-Ahsan, in-charge of Aina Ghar, was caught at Dhaka airport while trying to flee the country. Ahsan is now in the custody of the army. Ahsan, who was in-charge of Aina Ghar for the last 8 years, will now be court-martialed. Prisoners were brought to Aina Ghar without court orders.