Full Name: Shaheen Reza Nur

Affiliation: The Daily Ittefaq

Current Position: Deceased

Date of Birth: September 21, 1954

Date of Death: February 13, 2021

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Magura

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Shaheen Reza Nur (21 September 1954 – 13 February 2021) was a Bangladeshi Journalist, former executive editor of the daily Ittefaq a national Bangla daily and founder of Projonmo Ekattor. He was the elder son of martyred journalist Shaheed Sirajuddin Hossain who was also an eminent journalist and one of the intellectuals killed by Al-Badr and Razakar, an auxiliary force of Pakistani army, at the fag end of the nine-month-long war in 1971. On December 10, 1971, Pakistani occupation army and their collaborators abducted his father Serajuddin Hossain from his Chamelibagh residence in Dhaka and he never returned.

Nur was born in Sharshuna village under Shalikha upazila of Magura district. In November of 1983, he joined the daily Ittefaq as an apprentice sub-editor. Later, he served in various positions in the Bengali newspaper for a long time. He was deeply associated with many other organisations including Bangladesh-India Friendship Association, Muktijoddha Sanghati Parishad, and Sector Commanders Forum.

Nur was the founder of Projonmo Ekattor, a platform of the children of Liberation War martyrs, had testified against Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid in a case filed for his involvement in crimes committed against humanity during the Liberation War. He was a prominent war crimes trail campaigner.  He was involved in the activities of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee since its inception in 1992 under the leadership of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam, seeking trial of war criminals.

In 2012, the journalist Nur gave testimony in the International Crimes Tribunal-2 in a war crimes case filed against executed war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed. With directives from their commander Mojaheed, and the plan prepared by the Pakistan army, Al-Badr men launched their mission to annihilate intellectuals just before Victory Day in 1971, Nur had told the tribunal as a prosecution witness.

Nur had been living in Canada for several years. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer and other physical complications. His condition started to worsen and he was admitted at Vancouver General Hospital. He breathed his last at Vancouver General Hospital in Canada at 10:40am (Bangladesh time) in February 13, 2021.

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