Mohammed Nizamul Huq
| Mohammed Nizamul Huq Nassim | |
|---|---|
| Justice of the High Court Division | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 March 1950 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Parents | Nurul Huq (father) and Asia Khatun (mother) |
| Alma mater | Patuakhali Government Jubilee High School |
| Occupation | Judge |
| Known for | his tenure on the International Crimes Tribunal |
Mohammed Nizamul Huq Nassim (born 15 March 1950), (Anglicized also as: Nizamul Haque Nasim or as Nizamul Haque Nizam) is a judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He chaired the panel of three judges that presided over the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal until his resignation on 11 December 2012.
Nizamul Huq is the son of Nurul Huq, his father, and Asia Khatun, his mother. He attended the Patuakhali Government Jubilee High School in the Patuakhali District.
Nizamul Huq was a treasurer and lawyer for the Bangladesh human rights organisation Odhikar (Anglicized also as Adhikar) before joining the High Court.
Huq was first appointed judge of the High Court by President Shahabuddin Ahmed, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Huq was reappointed to the High Court by President Zillur Rahman, on 24 March 2009.
Huq was a member of the Secretariat of the People's Commission, which prepared evidence in 1994 before the tribunal about the defendants, over whom Huq would later preside, and he later deliberated on the report as evidence during the war crimes trials. Afterward, he was appointed as the head of the International Crimes Tribunal on 25 March 2010, and he resigned amid a controversy on 11 December 2012 after his Skype calls with Ahmed Ziauddin were revealed by Amar Desh and The Economist. He was replaced by Fazle Kabir. Afterward he rejoined the High Court and hears civil cases.
Nizamul Huq resigned his position for "personal reasons" and shortly after the release of the full 17 hours of Skype conversations and 230 emails between himself and Ziauddin to news sources. From December 2012 until March 2013, it was unknown who had obtained access to the Skype conversations and emails or how those materials were obtained, although the publishers of the content were first suspected. In 2013, journalist David Bergman reported that he had learned that Huq had transferred his entire computer drive over multiple computers and a US-based security firm said people with legal access to those drives gave its agents the files. In the New Age article, Bergman quotes James Mulvaney, who is from Guardian Consulting LLC and the private security firm that was given the materials by an unnamed source, says:
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