Published : Thursday, 24 January 2013
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Wednesday adjourned the hearing in the trial of Matiur Rahman Nizami, charged with committing crimes against humanity during the liberation war, until February 3, reports BSS.
The three-member panel of ICT-1, headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir fixed the date accepting a plea of the prosecution.
Wednesday was fixed for further cross-examination of the second prosecution witness (PM) against the incumbent Jama’at chief. But as the tribunal wanted to continue with defence’s arguments in the trial …

By Staff Correspondent,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2013-01-17 08:08:43.0 Updated: 2013-01-17 10:33:43.0

A verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla is due anytime now after both his defence and prosecution completed their arguments in the war crimes tribunal on Thursday.

The second war crimes tribunal chief Justice Obaidul Hassan, after hearing arguments by the both parties, said the verdict would be given any day the court finds convenient.
This is the third case that awaits a verdict at the International Crime Tribunal-2, formed to try crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence in 1971.

The two others …

JANUARY 16, 2013
(New York, January 17, 2013) – The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately explain what actions they have taken to locate Shukho Ranjan Bali, a witness who defense lawyers and witnesses say was abducted from the gates of the war crimes courthouse in Dhaka on November 5, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. More than two months after his disappearance, there is no news about Bali’s whereabouts or condition. The witnesses say he was last seen in police custody.

Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a central executive committee member of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is …

January 3, 2013
L-R: L-R: Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delawar Hossain Sayedee and Muhammad KamruzzamanStar Online Report
Petitions for retrial of war crimes cases against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delawar Hossain Sayedee and Muhammad Kamruzzaman were rejected on Thursday.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 rejected three petitions of Ghulam Azam, Nizami and Sayedee while the ICT-2 rejected the petition of Kamruzzaman.
The Jamaat leaders are facing the trial for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
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However, the ICT-1 led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir on Thursday decided …

Dhaka, Dec 31 (bdnews24.com) — The first war crimes tribunal on Monday completed hearing arguments from both sides on applications for retrial of three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal – 1, set up to try crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, indicted Jamaat guru and former chief Ghulam Azam for five war crimes charges, party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for 16 and Executive Council Member Delwar Hossain Sayedee for 20 charges.
The flurry of retrial applications came about after former …

Dhaka, Dec 27 (bdnews24.com)—Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s defence on Thursday began presenting facts in its bid for a retrial followed by a similar application on behalf of Ghulam Azam.
Senior defence counsel Mizanul Islam drew references from an alleged Skype conversation supposedly between former tribunal Chairman Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq and a Brussels-based academic Ahmed Ziauddin, attempting to make a case for retrial.
The controversy first came to light through an order of Justice Huq himself when on Dec 6 he noted …

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DHAKA: Jamaat leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami and Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Sunday pleaded to International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 for retrial of charges against them for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s liberation war in 1971.
The ICT-1 led by ATM Fazle Kabir fixed Monday for final hearing on the petitions.
Earlier on December 19, former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam filed same kind of petition.
Chief Jamaat lawyer Barrister Abdur Razzak filed the 214-page petition for Nizami, 600-page for Sayedee and 600-page for Ghulam Azam for …

Dhaka, Dec 23 (bdnews24.com)— The defence lawyers of Jamaat-e-Islami have filed two more retrial petitions for their leaders accused of war crimes.
The Jamaat defence team had filed an application for the retrial of the party’s former chief Ghulam Azam on Dec 19 and had indicated that they would submit similar prayers before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) over the ongoing trails of other party leaders.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal – 1, set up to try crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation …

Nov 19th 2012, 15:26 by T.J.

WHAT explains the apparent abduction of a defence witness, just before he was to testify at Bangladesh’s International War Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka? Shukho Ranjon Bali was bundled away at the very gates of the tribunal, a domestic court that is charged with bringing to justice some of those accused of killing huge numbers (the government claims as many as 3m) of people in the bloody 1971 war of secession from Pakistan.
Mr Bali was snatched as the defence team and its witness arrived at the …

Thursday, December 6, 2012
0একটি অভিযোগও প্রমাণ হয়নি বিধায় তিনি খালাস পাবেন-এডভোকেট মিজান
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বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর নায়েবে আমীর আন্তর্জাতিক খ্যাতিসম্পন্ন মোফাসসিরে কুরআন মাওলানা দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদীর বিরুদ্ধে আনীত ১৯৭১ সালের মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের মামলার চূড়ান্ত শুনানি গতকাল বৃহস্পতিবার শেষ হয়েছে। তবে রায়ের তারিখ ঘোষণা করেননি ট্রাইব্যুনাল। আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল-১ এর চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম সকলের কাছে দোয়া চেয়েছেন ন্যায়বিচারের সঠিক সিদ্ধান্তে পৌঁছানোর জন্য। পাশাপাশি তিনি বলেন, আমরা প্রসিকিউশন বা ডিফেন্স কোন দিকেই তাকিয়ে সিদ্ধান্ত নিব না। আমরা রায় দিব সাক্ষ্য-প্রমাণ ও ফ্যাক্ট-ডকুমেন্টের ভিত্তিতে। …

Thu, Nov 29th, 2012 9:27 pm BdST

Dhaka, Nov 29 (bdnews24.com) — Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s chief defence counsel Abdur Razzaq spent most of Thursday arguing that the war crimes investigator had committed fraud upon the court.
On the second day of his deliberations as part of the closing arguments of Sayedee’s war crimes case at the International Crimes Tribunal-1, the chief defence counsel attempted to reveal how the court had been deceived into accepting statements of 15 witnesses given to the investigator as evidence.
Those 15 witness statements, on which the …

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একাত্তরের মুক্তিযুদ্ধের সময় মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের অভিযোগে গ্রেফতারকৃত (শর্তসাপেক্ষে জামিন) বিএনপি নেতা সাবেক মন্ত্রী আব্দুল আলীমের বিরুদ্ধে অষ্টম সাক্ষী মুক্তিযুদ্ধকালে শহীদ জব্বল হোসেনের মেয়ে বিউটি খানম কান্নাজড়িত কণ্ঠে বলেছেন, আলীমের নেতৃত্বে শান্তি কমিটির সদস্যরা আমার বাবাকে নির্যাতন শেষে হত্যা করে। তার জবানবন্দী দেয়ার সময় এজলাস কক্ষের পরিবেশ ভারি হয়ে ওঠে। জবানবন্দীতে তিনি সেই সময়ের বিভীষিকাময় কাহিনী তুলে ধরেন। চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি এটিএম ফজলে কবীরের নেতৃত্বে তিন সদস্যবিশিষ্ট আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল-২-এ তিনি এই জবানবন্দী প্রদান করেছেন। ট্রাইব্যুনালের অন্য দু’জন সদস্য ছিলেন বিচারপতি মোঃ ওবায়দুল হাসান শাহীন ও …