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{{short description|Bangladeshi journalist}}
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|name = Khondakar Abu Taleb
|office = Chief reporter of The Daily Ittefaq
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|birth_date = 23 March 1921
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|death_date = 29 March 1971
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'''Khondakar Abu Taleb''' (1921-1971) was a Bangladeshi journalist who was killed by Pakistani Army in the Bangladesh Liberation and is considered a "martyr" in Bangladesh.<ref name="unnb">{{cite web|last1=Siddiqua|first1=Arifa|title=Taleb, Khondakar Abu|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Taleb,_Khondakar_Abu|website=Banglapedia|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Chaudhuri|first1=Kalyan|title=Genocide in Bangladesh|year=1972|publisher=Orient Longman|pages=153|isbn=9780883860458|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eptAAAAMAAJ&q=Khondakar+Abu+Taleb|access-date=30 December 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=PIB unveils plaque for 13 martyred journalists|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/12/14/pib-unveils-plaque-13-martyred-journalists/|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=14 December 2016|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

==Early life==
Taleb was born on 23 March 1921 in Satani, [[Satkhira]], [[East Bengal]], [[British Raj]]. He finished school from Satkhira PN School in 1944. He graduated from [[Surendranath College|Kolkata Ripon College]]. In 1948 he competed his bachelor's degree in commerce and in 1956 he completed his law degree from [[Surendranath Law College]].<ref name="unnb" />

== Career ==
Taleb started his journalism career in [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, after the partition of India he moved to [[Dhaka]], [[East Bengal]]. He worked in a number of East Bengal newspapers, including ''[[The Bangladesh Observer|Pakistan Observer]]'', ''Sangbad'', ''[[Daily Azad]]'', ''Ittefaq'' and ''Paigam''. From 1961 to 1962 he was the general secretary of East Pakistan Journalist union. Till 1965 he was the chief reporter of the ''[[The Daily Ittefaq|Daily Ittefaq]]''.<ref name="unnb" />

In 1966 the Pakistan government closed down ''Ittefaq''. He joined the ''Daily Sandhya Awaz'' as the managing director, of which then [[Abdul Gaffar Choudhury]] was the editor. His paper was the first to the publish the Six Point demand of Sheikh Mujib in Bangla, which demanded autonomy of East Pakistan. The translation was personally done by him. In 1969 he joined a law firm as a consultant and worked as the feature editor of the ''Daily Paigam''. He was supportive of the non-cooperation movement in [[East Pakistan]] and [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971.<ref name="unnb" />

==Death and legacy==
Taleb was arrested on 29 March 1971 by members of [[Pakistan army]] with collaboration of the [[Biharis in Bangladesh|Biharis]] in [[Mirpur Thana|Mirpur]]. His dead body was found afterwards. On 14 December 1993 the [[Bangladesh Post Office]] released commemorative stamps with his image and name.<ref name="unnb" />

In 2011, [[Abdul Quader Molla]], a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, was charged by the Bangladesh [[International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh)|International Crimes Tribunal]] with the killing of Taleb, among five other charges of crimes against humanity.<ref>{{cite web |date=2013-02-05 |title=Molla sentenced to life in jail |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/02/05/molla-sentenced-to-life-in-jail |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=bdnews24.com}}</ref>
The charge was that Molla along with other members of Al Badr and non-Bangalees, detained Taleb from Mirpur 10 bus stand and tied him up with a rope, brought to the Mirpur [[Jalladkhana Killing field|Jallad Khana Pump House]] and killed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Charges and verdicts against Molla |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/crime/2013/dec/11/charges-and-verdicts-against-molla#sthash.B8dl7fu2.dpuf |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=11 December 2022}}</ref>
In 2013, Molla was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for the murder of Taleb, and life imprisonment on other charges.<ref>{{cite news |title=Quader Molla charged |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=214753 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
Many activists reacted to the verdict by protesting and demonstrating, demanding the [[Capital punishment in Bangladesh|death penalty]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Outraged |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=268056 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=6 February 2022}}</ref><ref>"[http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=268185 Verdict surprises some top jurists]", ''The Daily Star'', 7 February 2013</ref> which culminated in the [[2013 Shahbag protests]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Outrage explodes over verdict |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=268211 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=7 February 2022}}</ref>
The Supreme Court revised the sentence to death, and Molla was hanged in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Tanim Ahmed |author2=Biswadip Das |title=Quader Molla hangs, finally, for war crimes |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/12/12/quader-molla-hangs-finally-for-war-crimes |newspaper=[[bdnews24.com]] |date=12 December 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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