Nizamuddin Ahmed

Nizamuddin Ahmed, (; c. 1929 – 12 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi journalist. On 12 December 1971, he was abducted and killed by an Al-Badr activists team. He was awarded Ekushey Padak posthumously in 1993 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Education and career Ahmed was born in the district of Munshiganj.

On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Nizamuddin Ahmed, nine Dhaka University teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.