Articles Archive for 6 February 2011
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Dhaka, Feb 6 (IANS) The Jamaat-e-Islami has engaged three British legal experts to defend its top leaders accused of committing ‘war crimes’ during Bangladesh’s liberation struggle of 1971.
Steven Kay, Toby Cadman and John Cammegh are advising on their defence to be put up before the International War Crimes Tribunal, a three-judge panel named by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government expected to begin the trial shortly.
Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojahid, senior assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and …
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ঢাকা, ফেব্র”য়ারি ০৬ (বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম)- আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের রাষ্ট্রপক্ষের (প্রসিকিউশন) শাখায় আরো দুইজন আইনজীবী নিয়োগ দেওয়া হয়েছে।
রোববার তাদের প্রসিকিউশন শাখায় যুক্ত করতে আইন মন্ত্রণালয় থেকে একটি চিঠি অ্যাটর্নি জেনারেলের কার্যালয়ে পৌঁছায়।
নিয়োগপ্রাপ্তরা হলেন, সহকারী অ্যাটর্নি জেনারেল নুরজাহান মুক্তা ও ফজিলাতুন্নেসা বাপ্পী। বর্তমানে তারা অ্যাটর্নি জেনারেলের কার্যালয়ে কর্মরত।
সমপদের আইনজীবী হিসাবে তাদের নিয়োগ দেওয়া হয়েছে।
এ নিয়ে আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের আইনজীবীর সংখ্যা ১০-এ দাঁড়ালো।
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Three British lawyers, one of them who counselled Yugoslavia’s former President Slobodan Milosevic against war crime charges, would defend five detained Jamaat-e-Islami leaders accused of ”crimes against humanity” during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
Jamaat, which opposed the independence war, engaged the three British legal experts as a process was underway to expose their detained leaders including party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and bring them to justice, the Daily Star reported.
It said of the three British legal experts …
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L-R: Steven Kay QC, Toby Cadman and John Cammegh
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has engaged three British legal experts to defend its leaders from allegations of war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Sources in Jamaat said the three are: Steven Kay QC, Toby Cadman and John Cammegh.
A top-level Jamaat leader told The Daily Star, “Currently they are giving us advice but we have plans to appoint them as defence counsels for our leaders against whom formal charges will be placed by the …
