People from all walks of life indoors, at work and on the streets across the country stood in a silence for three minutes as the clock struck four on Tuesday afternoon joining the Shahbagh protests demanding death penalty for all war criminals. People wherever they were observed silence for the three minutes at the call of protesters ... Read more
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Cabinet endorses ICT law changes
Appeal in war crimes cases to be disposed of in 60 days The cabinet on Monday endorsed a proposal for amendments to the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 allowing the prosecution or an aggrieved to appeal against any sentence and giving the Appellate Division 60 days to dispose of the appeal in a war crimes ... Read more
PM asks judges to consider people’s aspirations
War Crimes Trial PM asks judges to consider people’s aspirations The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday urged judges of the international crimes tribunals to ‘consider the aspiration of the people while delivering verdicts’ and vowed to do ‘everything to ensure the maximum punishment of war criminals.’ Hasina, also the leader of the house, said ... Read more
Shahbagh thunder rumbles on
The popular protests spearheaded by youths from Shahbagh Square on the fifth day on Saturday saw huge torch and candlelight processions after dusk as people from all walks of life continued streaming into the heart of the city all day taking a fresh vow not to leave the square until all war criminals, including Jamaat-e-Islami ... Read more
Human sea wants war criminals hanged
Shahbagh rally calls for nat’l unity People in their thousands continued pouring in ‘Shahbagh Square’ turning the area and its surroundings into a human sea on Friday afternoon, calling for a national unity of political parties, professionals, cultural, students and youth organisations for ensuring death penalty for the war criminals of 1971. They also demanded ... Read more
People burst into protests
Quader Molla Verdict People burst into protests People disappointed about Abdul Quader Molla being jailed for life on charges of crimes against humanity continued sitting in at Shahbagh in the capital for the second consecutive day on Wednesday demanding death penalty for the Jamaat leader. Bloggers and online activists began the protests in the place ... Read more
Quader Molla handed life term
The international crimes tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla to life term imprisonment for committing mass murder and rape during the country’s War of Liberation in 1971. A three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2 delivered the historic judgment against Quader, an assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in the crowded courtroom at
Sultana describes Ghulam Azam’s role in ’71 as like as Hitler
Rights activist Sultana Kamal on Thursday compared Jamaat’s former amir Ghulam Azam’s role during the War of Independence in 1971 with that of infamous dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany before and during the Second World War. Sultana made the above statement in the International Crimes Tribunal-1 during
Al-Badr was a half-secret organisation: Shahriyar
Writer and journalist Shahriyar Kabir, the first prosecution witness against Jamaat’s detained secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, on Thursday told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that Al-Badr was a half-secret organization during the War of Independence in 1971. ‘No name of any Al-Badr bigwig was published in 1971 as it was a half-secret bahini,’ said
Witness says Alim ordered killing of young men in 1971
The second prosecution witness against former BNP minister Abdul Alim, who was also a lawmaker, told in International Crimes Tribunal 2 on Tuesday that Alim had ordered the killing of many young people in Jaipurhat during the war of independence in 1971. The witness, Md Saidur Rahman, now 67, also told the tribunal that Alim, ... Read more
10th prosecution witness against SQ Chowdhury cross-examined
War Crimes Trial 10th prosecution witness against SQ Chowdhury cross-examined reedom fighter Kazi Mohammad Nurul Absar on Tuesday testified that a cook of a restaurant at Chandpura in Chittagong was arrested in September 1971 after an abortive attack by freedom fighters on the life of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The cook was brutally tortured in custody ... Read more
Witness’s brother was killed by Kamaruzzaman, Al-Badr
A dentist on Monday testified that the detained assistant secretary general of the Jamaat, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, and his Al-Badr cohorts on 29 June, 1971 caught his younger brother, who was later tortured and killed. Md Hasanuzzaman, the sixth prosecution witness against Kamaruzzaman, made his deposition before the International Crimes Tribunal-2, popularly known as
Quader’s counsels try to incriminate witness
Md Amir Hossain Mollah, the ninth prosecution witness against the detained assistant secretary general of the Jamaat, Abdul Quader Molla, on Monday told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that a case was lodged against him in Pallabi thana on 4 April, 2012 by one Moniruzzaman. The witness, a freedom-fighter who was being cross-examined by Quader’s defence ... Read more
FFs’ attempt to kill Salauddin failed in Sept 1971: witness
War Crimes Trial FFs’ attempt to kill Salauddin failed in Sept 1971: witness A freedom fighter on Monday testified that the detained BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury might have escaped an attack by freedom fighters during the liberation war, in which his driver was killed. The freedom fighters’ operation failed due to wrong information, said ... Read more
Charge against Bachchu Razakar on 10 counts submitted
The war crimes prosecutors on Sunday submitted formal charges on 10 counts of crimes against humanity in 22 incidents against Abul Kalam Azad, who was known in Faridpur as Bachchu Razakar during the 1971 War of Independence, to the registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal. The charges brought against Bachchu include genocide, murder, rape, abduction,
Freedom fighter didn’t hear of Sayedee’s atrocities
The first defence witness for the detained nayeb-e-amir of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had not heard of any of Sayedee’s atrocities. Shamsul Alam Talukdar, a 68-year-old freedom-fighter, made his deposition before
Survivor confirmed Kamaruzaman’s role in Mostafa killing: witness
The fifth prosecution witness against the detained assistant secretary general of Jamaat, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, on Thursday told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that though he did not personally hear Kamaruzzaman’s order to abduct and kill his freedom-fighter brother Golam Mostafa Talukdar, he was told of it by
Witness says his brother was killed by Kamaruzzaman
War crimes trial Witness says his brother was killed by Kamaruzzaman A prosecution witness on Wednesday testified that the detained assistant secretary general of Jamaat, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, and his Al-Badr thugs caught his freedom-fighter brother and killed him on 23 August, 1971. Mosharraf Hossain Talukdar, who is the fifth prosecution witness against Kamaruzzaman, told the International ... Read more
Azhar sent to jail
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday sent detained Jamaat acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam to jail. It passed the order after hearing both the defence and the prosecution about his bail petition. The tribunal said that it would give its order on his bail petition on Sunday and asked the
Jamaat’s acting secy gen ATM Azharul Islam arrested
The Jamaat-e-Islami’s acting secretary general, ATM Azharul Islam, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 issued an arrest warrant for his suspected involvement in war crimes during the War of Independence in 1971. The Detective Branch of the police, on receiving the order from the tribunal, arrested