Uncovering a secret jail next to an international airport

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Samira Hussain

BBC News

Reporting fromDhaka, Bangladesh

BBC/Aamir Peerzada Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem stands in a detention centre looking at the camera, he wears glasses, a dark polo shirt and light trousers and has a beard. He is stood in front of a hole in the wall exposing inner brickwork with a pile of rubble just in frame to his right.

When investigators smashed through a hastily built wall, they uncovered a set of secret jail cells.

It turned out to be a freshly bricked-up doorway – an attempt to hide what…

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