He held a press conference at the auditorium of the National Press Club on Tuesday to talk about various aspects of the missing life. After 8 long years of release from captivity, he presented to the journalists.
Abdullahil Aman Azmi said, "I did not know about the revolution that took place on the 5th of August." On that day (August 5) at 10:30 pm I was told that you will be taken to the doctor. I said, I pray Fajr and sleep. If it comes around 2 o'clock that's my advantage. I told them that the doctor had seen me a few days ago. He also did a blood test. Where will you take me now?
Then they said, you have to go to the doctor. Accordingly I was masked and taken to another room.
He said, when I was told on the night of August 5, I will take you to the hospital. Then I said, I have been telling you for eight years that my teeth are broken, I am having ear problems. Take me to the hospital, you didn't. And now they are saying that they have to go to the hospital. How about that?
Then I was blindfolded and taken to the car. They were traveling a long way. I said that no hospital in Dhaka city is so far away. Where are you taking me? No one answered. The road is broken. I said, no road in Dhaka city is so dilapidated. I said, are you taking me to a village or not? They did not reply. Later I was taken to another prison.
He said, I can guess that students were checking cars on the road that day. That's why they took me through the village road. Later they said, you live here. I said, you will not bring me to the hospital, where did you bring it? They said, you will be informed later.
Highlighting the incident of release, he said, on August 6, someone told me that I may be released today. One said, tell me the size of your clothes. I said, I don't wear clothes, I can't tell the size. Later a cloth was brought. What you saw after the release of the pants-shirt. I saw it later. I have no idea what is happening outside. Later they left with me around 9:00. They took me along the Elenga road in Tangail and released me. He said, the car will come, get in the car and you will leave. It was half past 12 o'clock at night.
He said that 5 thousand rupees were given as car rental, they gave me money. I said how much is the rent in Dhaka? They said, I don't know exactly. I said, how much money is here? They said, five thousand rupees. I said I am not waiting for your money. Pay as much as Dhaka rent from here. They said whatever you do, you donate, you have to take some money. I didn't feel like talking to them for a second. Then they dropped me off and left.
About the moment of release, Azmi said, "When I was released, I could not walk properly. Then I saw a car coming. I felt like jumping into the bus. Later I boarded the bus. I had the phone numbers of my wife and cousin in my mind. I called them after asking for a phone from a bus passenger. The bus dropped me at the technical junction. After receiving treatment with my family, I reached home on the morning of the 8th.
Abdullahil Aman Azmi also said, "I was released after 8 years from the so-called 'mirror' prison." I was unjustly detained here for a long time. I kept my hair long as a silent protest during my imprisonment.
Azmi says, my chest bursts when I think about how my days have passed. One day I was told, 'You have to write. There you write, I will not be involved in politics. I want to live happily and peacefully abroad with my wife and children. I will go abroad.'
Then I said, I am a free citizen of a free country. You have illegally kidnapped me. They have detained me and are torturing me. I can't hold this protest march meeting. So I kept big hair as a silent protest. I am a free citizen of a free country, my personal wish is whether I will do politics or not, whether I will stay in this country or not. God gave me that honest courage. I said it strongly.
Incidentally, in 2016, Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the son of the former emir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Prof. Ghulam Azam, went missing. After 8 long years, he was released from the said 'mirror house' on the night of August 6.
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