04 Feb 2013
Staff Correspondent
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DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 fixed Tuesday for issuing the verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah.

About all television channels broadcasted the news on Monday morning. But tribunal-2 did not declare the date formally.
On January 17, the tribunal led by Obaidul Hasan concluded the proceedings of the case fixing no date and time for the verdict.
The court has kept the case as CAV which means the verdict could be delivered any time.
The defense counsel concluded their arguments placing a …

January 3, 2013
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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 …

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DHAKA: Bangladeshi Islamic leaders demanded a retrial yesterday for war crimes, including genocide, saying a leaked transcript of phone calls showed the trial judge had come under pressure to deliver a quick verdict.
Lawyers representing Motiur Rahman Nizami, who is head of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, Ghulam Azam and Delawar Hossain Sayedee had filed petitions before a court in Dhaka, defense lawyer Tanvir Ahmed said.
“The court started hearing two petitions today,” he told AFP.
Eleven suspects who are either members of …

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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 …

Tue, Dec 18th, 2012 8:34 pm BdST
A former guerrilla told the first war crimes tribunal on Tuesday that Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami had tortured him at a Dhaka army camp during the War of Independence.
The prosecution witness placed Nizami at an infamous camp in Dhaka’s Nakhalparha where freedom fighters and sometimes their sympathisers are said to have been tortured in 1971.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal-1, set up to try crimes against humanity during the war, indicted Nizami on May 28 on 16 war crimes charges.
Appearing as the second witness, …

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An eyewitness yesterday testified that he had seen Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed at a Pakistan army and their collaborators’ camp at Mohammadpur during the Liberation War.
All three Jamaat leaders are facing trial in connection with the crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.
The Mohammadpur Physical Training College was the torture and training centre of Al-Badr and Razakar forces as well as a camp of the Pakistani army during the nine-month-long war, Rustam Ali Molla, an informer of freedom fighters told …

Dhaka , Sun, 04 Nov 2012
Bangladeshi freedom fighter and chairman of the country’s University Grants Commission A. K. Azad Chowdhury has said that the successful holding of the war crimes trial in his country would set an example for the rest of world.
War crimes tribunal, which was set in 2010, requires wrapping up investigations of all those who were accused, as the government aims to finish their trials before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s five-year term ends. She took charge of office in early 2009.
A former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s biggest …

Dhaka, Oct 14 (bdnews24.com ) — The first war crimes tribunal ordered the prosecution to submit a progress report or the full investigation report against Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general A T M Azharul Islam on Dec 2.
The prosecution submitted a progress report of investigations into the Jamaat leader’s alleged war crimes.
The prosecution said in its report that it had already collected some material but needs more time to collect more materials and consult witnesses regarding some new allegations that have come up.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal – 1, set up …

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স্টাফ রিপোর্টার ॥ একাত্তরে মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের অভিযোগে জামায়াতের সাবেক আমির গোলাম আযম বর্তমান আমির মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ ও সহকারী সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল মোহাম্মদ কামারুজ্জামানের বিরুদ্ধে সাক্ষীগণকে জেরা করেছে আসামি পক্ষের আইনজীবী। জেরায় বিশিষ্ট গবেষক মুনতাসীর মামুন বলেছেন, শান্তিকমিটি রাজাকার আলবদরের সিংহভাগই ছিল জামায়াতে ইসলামীর। অপর সাক্ষী ইসলামী ঐক্যজোটের চেয়ারম্যান আলহাজ মিছবাহুর রহমান চৌধুরী বলেছেন, বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যায় জামায়াতকে দায়ী করা হয়েছে। এটা বিভিন্ন গবেষণা থেকে পাওয়া গেছে। মঙ্গলবার চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি মোঃ নিজামুল হক নাসিমের নেতৃত্বে দুই সদস্যবিশিষ্ট …

Friday, September 21, 2012
Staff Correspondent:
War hero Jalal testifies at war crimes tribunal
Jamaat leaders Nizami and Mojaheed tortured martyred freedom fighter Rumi and musician Altaf Mahmud at a camp of the Pakistani army in Nakhalpara of Dhaka, said a witness before the International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday.
Rumi and Altaf never came home as Nizami and Mojaheed decided to have them killed, said second prosecution witness and freedom fighter Zahir Uddin Jalal in the war crimes case against Mojaheed.
Jalal was also in the camp and was brutally tortured by Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman …