Solidarity Center Report: Bangladesh: 1 Year Later, Murderer of Aminul Islam Still Free

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Solidarity Center and the international worker rights movement are commemorating Bangladesh union leader Aminul Islam, who was brutally murdered one year ago April 4. His murderer or murderers remain at large. Aminul, 39, was a plant-level union leader at an export processing zone in Bangladesh, an organizer for the Bangladesh Center for Workers’ Solidarity (BCWS), and president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation’s (BGIWF) local committee in the Savar and Ashulia areas of Dhaka. He and his wife had three children. Read more at the Solidarity Center. - photo: Bangladesh union leader Aminul Islam; photo courtesy Solidarity Center