Principal Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus visited the secret detention center known as the 'Mirror House' along with some government-selected media outlets and victims.
On Wednesday morning, he visited three secret detention centers located in Agargaon, Kachukhet and Uttara in Dhaka.
The detention centers, which were used during the rule of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, are reportedly located in areas adjacent to the offices of the police's special force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), and the Directorate General of Defense Intelligence (DGFI) of Bangladesh.
The chief advisor said that victims of disappearances were held in those detention centers and tortured for the past 15 years.
"This is a horrific scene!" Professor Yunus told reporters after visiting the prison.
"People were brought in and tortured in these torture cells, labeled as terrorists for no reason," he added.
Several government advisors were with Professor Yunus during his visit to these secret detention centers, known as the 'mirror houses'.
Among them, Information and Broadcasting Advisor Nahid Islam and Youth and Sports Advisor Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan identified the 'mirror houses' in which they themselves were imprisoned.
After returning from captivity during the July uprising last year, Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud told BBC Bangla that they had been taken away and held in an unknown location.
Among the victims, Abdullahil Aman Azmi, son of the late leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Ghulam Azam, who was a victim of disappearance during the Awami League era, was with the advisors.
Ahmed bin Kashem, son of another late Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Kashem Ali, was also present there.
However, 'Mayer Dak', an organization of relatives of victims of disappearances during the Awami League era, was not invited as a companion on this tour.
