Munier Choudhury

Abu Naeem Mohammad Munier Choudhury (27 November 1925 – 14 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident.

[1] His father was Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury, a district magistrate and Aligarh Muslim University graduate.

[5][6] Because of his father's official assignment, Choudhury lived in Manikganj, Pirojpur and other parts of East Bengal.

[1] In 1952, he was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act for protesting against police repression and the killing of students on the Language Movement.

[11] He continued to write after being freed from prison, some of his notable works being Roktakto Prantor (1959; a play about the Third Battle of Panipat), Chithi (1966) and Polashi Barrack O Onyanno (1969).

[7] After the Pakistani army crackdown in 1971 in the University of Dhaka area from which Chowdhury escaped like many, he moved to his parents' house, near Hatirpool.

[2] On 18 July 2013, Asif Munier Chowdhury Tonmoy, a son of Choudhury, made the statement before the International Crimes Tribunal-2.

[13] On 3 November the same year, both of them were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers including Choudhury, six journalists and three physicians – in December 1971.

[16] Choudhury's notable siblings include actress Ferdousi Mazumder, National Professor Kabir Chowdhury (1923- 2011), columnist Shamsher Choudhury (died 2012), language activist Nadera Begum (died 2013) and the first Bengali Cadet to be awarded Sowrd of Honour at Pakistan Military Academy, Lt.

[21] Bangla Academy confers Shaheed Munier Choudhury Memorial Award to book publishing houses for the merit of quality of printing and aesthetic values.

Chowdhury and his wife Lily
Choudhury with his wife Lily (1957)