আইনজীবীর আবেদনের প্রেক্ষিতে ট্যাইব্যুনাল আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লার অভিযোগ গঠনের শুনানি আগামি ১৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি ধার্য করেছেন

The defence kept its cross-examination rather brief and in fact declined to cross-examine two witnesses who only corroborated the seizure of evidence by the investigation officer.

Earlier, the tribunal adjourned for half an hour responding to a defence plea to allow them time for examining documents.

The law minister said the trial of crimes against humanity commited during liberation war in1971 would come to an end by 2012 while talking to journalists

PM reaffirms commitment at Manikganj rally to try war criminals, corrupt

Hasan Jahid Tusher, back from Manikganj
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to reject the BNP-Jamaat forces, alleging that they had patronised militancy, indulged in corruption and now were trying to save war criminals.
“The people of Bangladesh do not want to see them [BNP-Jamaat] in power again. They made crores of taka through corruption, abetted militancy and terrorism and are now trying to save the war criminals,” she said.
She also urged …

Moinul Hoque Chowdhury
bdnews24.com senior correspondent
Dhaka, Jan 17 (bdnews24.com) – For the sake of his trial, Ghulam Azam should be ‘fed well and kept in an air-conditioned room, if necessary’, says an activist campaigning for war crimes trial.
Shahrier Kabir, the head of Ekattorerer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee, says Jamaat-e-Islami could do anything. “They might poison Ghulam Azam in the prison. But if he dies, there will be no trial,” he told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.
Kabir’s comments come in reaction to allegations from certain quarters …

Sun, Jan 15th, 2012 2:22 pm BdST

Dhaka, Jan 15 (bdnews24.com) — The war crimes tribunal will hold further hearing on BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s indictment on Jan 23.
The International Crimes Tribunal established to address the crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War, also relieved the state counsel for Salauddin Quader’s defence after Mohammad Badiuzzaman concluded his previously filed petition appealing that the BNP MP is cleared of the charges.
Badiuzzaman was requested to submit all papers and documents …

Staff Correspondent
The medical board, formed to check the physical condition of arrested former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam, is of the opinion that he is stable and does not need to be in hospital.
“His physical condition is stable and well. He has been given the diet for VIP patients and he has no problems now,” BSMMU Director Brig Gen Abdul Majid Bhuiyan told The Daily Star yesterday.
He said the opinion of the medical board is that he can receive the treatment he needs …

AFP Wednesday, 11 Jan 2012 11:50 pm

DHAKA - Bangladesh on Wednesday arrested a religious leader on charges of war crimes during the country’s 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan, lawyers said.
Ghulam Azam, 89, a former head of opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, has been accused of creating and leading pro-Pakistan militias which carried out many murders and rapes during the nine-month war.
“He has been arrested after the International Crimes Tribunal rejected his (anticipatory) bail petition,” state prosecutor Syed Haider Ali told AFP. …

Wed, Jan 11th, 2012 11:28 pm BdST

Dhaka, Jan 11 (bdnews24.com) – The International Crimes Tribunal’s order to send Jamaat-e-Islami linchpin Ghulam Azam to jail for alleged involvement in war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War is not proper, defence counsel Abdur Razzaq has said.
“A man is innocent like 10 others, until proven guilty,” he told reporters after the tribunal’s order on Wednesday.
While the tribunal refused Azam’s bail petition while delivering the verdict, Razzaq said the defence would put in another bail appeal …

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi tribunal sent on Wednesday Golam Azam, former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami party, to jail to await trial on charges of war crimes, his attorneys and court officials said.
The 90-year-old leader is facing trial for helping the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, when, according to government records, more than three million people were killed and thousands of women raped in what was then East Pakistan.
Jamaat, Bangladesh’s biggest Islamic political party, opposed Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan and helped the …

By JULHAS ALAM — Associated Press
Posted: 3:27am on Jan 11, 2012; Modified: 5:17am on Jan 11, 2012
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A tribunal ordered the former chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party jailed Wednesday pending trial on charges he instigated deadly rampages against civilians during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Ghulam Azam, 89, a regional chief of Jamaat-e-Islami during the war and later the party’s leader in Bangladesh, is accused of having command-level authority in attacks – including slayings, arson, rape and looting – by …

মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের অভিযোগে আটক বিএনপির নেতা সালাউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরীর মুক্তির দাবি করে ছাপানো প্রায় তিন হাজার পোস্টার পুলিশ জব্দ করেছে। গতকাল মঙ্গলবার রাতে চট্টগ্রামের আন্দরকিল্লার রাজাপুকুর লেনের স্কাই প্রিন্টার্স নামের ছাপাখানা থেকে সেগুলো জব্দ করা হয়।
কোতোয়ালি থানার ভারপ্রাপ্ত কর্মকর্তা (ওসি) আবুল কালাম আজাদ গতকাল রাত সাড়ে ১০টায় প্রথম আলোকে বলেন, গোপন খবর পেয়ে তাঁরা অভিযান চালান। পোস্টার জব্দ করার পাশাপাশি রাতেই ওই ছাপাখানার মালিকের ছেলে পুলককে জিজ্ঞাসাবাদের জন্য তাঁরা থানায় নিয়ে যান।
ওসি জানান, চট্টগ্রাম অভিমুখে চার দলের রোডমার্চ কর্মসূচির আগে পোস্টারগুলো নগরের বিভিন্ন …