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After liberation, Chowdhury returned to Dhaka and was elected as
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Coventry, UK, by the expatriate Bengalis, and a five-member steering committee of the council was elected by them. He was the High Commissioner for the People's Republic of Bangladesh, London from 1 August 1971 to 8 January 1972.
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In 1978, Chowdhury was elected a member of the United
Nations Sub-committee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. In 1985, he was elected chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission. He was honoured with the insignia of
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in 1969. In 1971, while in Geneva he resigned from the post as a protest against the genocide in East
Pakistan by the Pakistan army. From Geneva he went to the UK and became the special envoy of the provisional
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Calcutta High Court Bar in 1947, and after the partition of India he came over to Dhaka and joined the Dhaka High Court Bar in 1948. In 1960, he was appointed as the advocate general of
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Constitution Commission (1960–1961) and chairman of the Bengali Development Board (1963–1968).
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Chowdhury died of a heart attack in London on 2 August 1987 and was buried in his village, Nagbari of
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1st Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
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as minister of ports and shipping. After Rahman was
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1071:Mohammed Shahabuddin
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986:Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
409:Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
361:Abul Hasan Chowdhury
204:Héctor Charry-Samper
43:Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
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