The interim government's chief advisor, Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, visited the mirror house with local and foreign media workers and victims.
Faiz Ahmed, Senior Assistant Press Secretary to the Chief Advisor, confirmed this information to the media on Wednesday (February 12).
Earlier, the decision to inspect the Chief Advisor's mirror room was taken at the Advisory Council meeting last Thursday (February 6).
On January 19, the Chief Advisor's press wing said that the Commission of Inquiry into the Disappearances held a meeting with the Chief Advisor. In that meeting, the Chief Advisor was briefed on the progress of the investigation into the disappearances. The place where the detainees were kept after disappearances is known as the Joint Interrogation Cell or Ainaghar. The interim head of government visited those facilities at the invitation of the members of the Commission.
It is alleged that 605 people were secretly detained during the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from 2009 to September 2021. Another report says that 344 people were disappeared in Bangladesh from 2014 to July 2019. Of them, 40 were found dead. And 66 were found arrested in government custody.
People who have returned after a long period of disappearance have maintained silence about their disappearance. It is believed that these people were kept in the mirror house. It is alleged that Professor Mobasher Hasan, former ambassador Maruf Zaman, businessman Aniruddha Kumar Roy, Michael Chakma and Mir Ahmed Bin Kashem were among those held in the mirror house.
It is worth noting that law enforcement agencies forcibly took away people from different classes and kept them in 'special' places. When a report was published in the Swedish-based media outlet Netra News, these places came to light under the name 'mirror houses'. Many of the disappeared returned to their families from the mirror houses after the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government. Their statements revealed the horror of the mirror houses.
