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{{Short description|Bangladeshi barrister and politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name=Rafiqul Islam Miah
|native_name=রফিকুল ইসলাম মিয়া
|native_name_lang=bn
|office=[[Ministry of Housing and Public Works|Minister of Housing and Public Works]]
|term_start=1991
|term_end=1996
|party=[[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
|nationality=Bangladeshi
}}
'''Rafiqul Islam Miah''' is a Bangladeshi barrister and politician.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/bnp-leader-barrister-rafiqul-islam-mia-arrested-in-dhaka-1663222|title=Rafiqul Islam Mia arrested hours after conviction|date=2018-11-21|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref> He served as the State Minister for Labour and Manpower and later as [[Ministry of Housing and Public Works|Minister of Housing and Public Works]] at the [[First Khaleda Cabinet|first Khaleda Zia cabinet]] during 1991–1996.<ref name=statesman>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=447JDQAAQBAJ&q=nazmul+huda+%221993%22&pg=PA186|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1993-94|last=Hunter|first=B.|page=186|date=2016-12-23|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230271227|language=en}}</ref> He also served as Minister of Education in the government formed after the [[February 1996 Bangladeshi general election]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://moedu.gov.bd/site/page/898a6bf3-2ef4-49be-becc-24cd12d18b9a/-|title=Former Education Ministers}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Rafiqul Islam Miah was born in 1943 in [[Muradnagar Upazila]] in [[Comilla District]], Bangladesh. He attended [[Comilla Victoria Government College]] and later [[University of Dhaka]] where he obtained his [[LLB]]. In 1974 he obtained his [[Bar-at-law]] from [[Lincoln's Inn]].

==Career==
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Rafiqul was elected Vice President of the Student Council at [[Comilla Victoria Government College]] and Convener of Comilla District [[Chatra league]] in 1963 Awami League Convention. He was rusticated from Dhaka University for his role in the movement against the [[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]] regime and was also a part of 6 member all party student action committee as the acting President of Chatra Shakti. During [[Bangladesh Liberation War]], on 28 April 1971, Rafiqul was one of the organizers of 'Action Bangla Desh' that protested the visit of the Pakistan cricket team to UK and was subsequently arrested. Between 1972 and 1974, Rafiqul was twice elected President of [[Lincoln's Inn]] Student Society.

Miah joined [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] as a publicity secretary in 1978 and rose to the rank of Joint Secretary General of the party during the mass movement against the [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]] regime. He was frequently imprisoned and played an active role in the [[1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh]] that eventually toppled the regime.

In September 2007, Miah served as the lawyer of [[Begum Khaleda Zia]] when she was arrested on charges of corruption and misuse of power.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/world/asia/03iht-bangla.1.7359545.html|title=Bangladesh police arrest a former prime minister|date=2007-09-03|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-11|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2008 Rafiqul represented the [[Bihari community in Bangladesh]] as they were granted citizenship status by [[High Court of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-37206|title=Stranded Biharis now Bangladeshi Citizens|work=The Daily Star}}</ref> He is currently a member of the National Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

===Conviction===
In 2001, [[Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh)|Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh]] sent Miah a notice to submit his wealth statement.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2018/11/20/rafiqul-islam-arrested-on-corruption-charges|title=Senior BNP leader Rafiqul Islam arrested|date=2018-11-20|work=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref> Failure to comply with that notice, in January 2004, led a case filed against him.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/news/graft-bnp-leader-rafiqul-islam-sent-jail-1663603|title=Graft: BNP leader Rafiqul Islam sent to jail|date=2018-11-21|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref> On 19 November 2018, he was sentenced to three years in prison and was arrested from his Eskaton home the same day .<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/news/186748/BNP-senior-leader-Rafiqul-Islam-Miah-arrested|title=BNP senior leader Rafiqul Islam Miah arrested|work=Prothom Alo|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref> On 26 November, he secured a six-month bail from the High Court which also stayed the fines.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/2018/11/26/appeal-filed-challenging-bnp-leader-rafiqul-islam-s-sentence|title=BNP leader Rafiqul Islam Mia gets bail from High Court|date=2018-11-26|work=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref>

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