<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh has requested Canada to find an alternative way to deport Nur Chowdhury, the self-confessed and convicted killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Law Minister Anisul Huq made the request when Lilly Nicholls, Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, paid a call on him at the secretariat on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Huq told reporters that the Canadian High Commissioner has informed him that according to Canada’s law they cannot return a death row convict.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I have a requested her to find an alternative way to return Nur as sheltering a killer is violation of human rights,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the visit they discussed 50 years of friendship between the two nations, areas of mutual cooperation, importance of freedom of expression in democratic societies. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>