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 …

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December 27, 2012

Since 2011, Cassidy and Associates (“CA”), one of USA’s largest lobbying firms has as one of its clients, Mir Quasem Ali, one of the 14 indicted by the International Crimes Tribunal (“ICT”) for war crimes committed in 1971. Documents from US congress disclose that CA has assembled a four-member team to lobby the ‘US House of Representatives, the US Senate and the State Department’. The team included its Chairman, Gerald SJ Cassidy, one of Washington’s most influential lobbyists, …

Dhaka, Dec 26 (bdnews24.com) — Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Wednesday said talks of war crimes trial do not suit BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The minister was reacting to a statement of Khaleda at a street rally in the city’s Kawran Bazar, in which she called the minister a ‘Rajakar’.
Addressing the rally as part of her party’s mass contact campaign to strengthen its ongoing anti-government movement and generate public opinion, Khaleda said: “He had continued with his job with the Pakistan government …

15 November 2012
The Bangladeshi International War Crimes Tribunal quickly became a stage for political interference and intimidation. With elections approaching, escalating tactics threaten to condemn the entire pursuit for justice.
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has again been at the centre of scandal following the abduction of a defence witness by plain-clothes policemen last Monday. Shukho Ranjan Bali had been in the car of senior defence counsel, Mizanul Islam, along with other members of the defence counsel en route to the ICT on November 5th …

The International Crimes Tribunal Monday fixed March 13 for next hearing on arguments of defense counsels in connection of Ghulam Azam’s alleged crimes against humanity.
ICT chairman Justice Nizamul Haque and Justice ATM Fazle Kabir passed the order as none of the defense counsels appeared before the tribunal Monday.
But, another member of the tribunal Justice Jahir Ahmed opposed the order.
“I am opposing the order as the defense counsels insulted the tribunal being not appeared before it. They could take public prosecutor if they had …

The trial of three alleged war criminals is almost in the last stage with cross-examination of the prosecution witnesses (PW) in these cases nearing completion at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
These three are – former ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Ghulam Azam, nayeb-e-ameer of the party Delwar Hossain Sayedee and assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah.
On the other hand, cross-examination of the PWs in the trial of Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury is in the final stage.
The 17th and …

October 17, 2012

(New York) – The raid, without any justification being given, by armed police on the offices of a prominent defense lawyer in the war crimes trials taking place in Bangladesh is a grave affront to the basic tenets of fair trials. The Bangladeshi government should take action against those who ordered the raid on the offices of defense counsel Mohammed Tajul Islam and take steps to ensure that lawyers are not subject to threats and intimidation.
“A raid by armed intelligence officers …

London, Oct. 14 (ANI):
One of Britain’s most important Muslim leaders, who has a senior position in the country’s National Health Service (NHS), is being charged with 18 murders by a war crimes tribunal in his native Bangladesh, investigators said.
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who is the director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS and is also the chairman of the Multi-Faith Group for Healthcare Chaplaincy, is accused of abducting, torturing and killing 18 journalists, academics and doctors during the bloody war of independence in Bangladesh in 1971.
Mueen-Uddin, …

Dhaka, Oct 2 (bdnews24.com) — The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh on Tuesday rejected a bail plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal – 1, set up to try crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, ordered on Sep 23 to produce the Jamaat Vice President in the court.
The prosecution is set to submit a progress report of the investigation against Subhan on Nov 4.
Delivering the tribunal’s order, with justices Jahangir Hossain and Anwarul Haque by his side, Chairman …

মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের অভিযোগে গ্রেফতারকৃত জামায়াতের কর্মপরিষদ ও নির্বাহী কমিটির সদস্য এবং দিগন্ত মিডিয়া করপোরেশনের চেয়ারম্যান মীর কাসেম আলীকে সেফ হোমে জিজ্ঞাসাবাদ চলছে।…

Prosecution witness says SQ Chy’s home seen as ‘main office’ of collaborators
A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the activities of Razakars, Al Shams and Al Badr forces in Chittagong during the Liberation War indicated that their “main office” was Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s Goods Hill home in Chittagong.
During yesterday’s cross-examination of Mohammad Salimullah, the second witness against the war crimes accused BNP lawmaker, the witness dealt with questions from the defence with quips and calm composure. His overblown exchanges with defence counsel Ahsanul Huq Hena was the …

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 adjourned hearing on the petition of Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s counsels over reviewing the tribunal’s decision to accept statements of 15 witnesses taken by the investigation officer (IO) as testimony until Wednesday.
Jamaat-e-Islami executive council member Sayedee’s counsellors came up with the petition when the tribunal sat after lunch recess around 2pm on Tuesday.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1, set up just over two years ago on Mar 25 2010, to deal with crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, indicted the Jamaat leader on 20 counts of war …