Indemnity
As president, Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed issued the Indemnity Ordinance, which prohibited any investigation and prosecution of the killing of Sheikh Mujib. Rahman was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and held a position of power in the new regime until it was overthrown in a counter-coup by pro-Mujib officers led by Maj. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf, who ousted Khondaker Mushtaque. However, the 6 November 1975 coup against the Mosharraf by Lt. Col. Abu Taher brought Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman to power, who appointed Syed Faruque Rahman and the other assassins to positions of power in the armed forces and diplomatic corps. In 1979, the Bangladeshi parliament under Ziaur Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party converted the Indemnity ordinance into an official act of parliament.
In the 1980s, Rahman was forced out of the army and into retirement. After the assassination of Ziaur Rahman in 1981, Rahman returned to active politics by founding the Freedom Party and running for the presidency against Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986.
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