Azhar verdict today
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will deliver its verdict on Tuesday morning in war crimes cases filed against Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam. The ICT-1, headed by Justice Enayetur Rahim, set the judgment day on Monday. The war crimes tribunal will start reading out its verdict around 11:00am in the cases filed against the Jamaat assistant secretary general for his crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. Azhar is charged with 6 counts of atrocities. Hearing in the cases against him was wrapped up on September 18. He was arrested from his Moghbazar residence on August 22, 2012, and has been in jail since then. He was indicted on November 12 last year. Azhar, a higher secondary student at Rangpur’s Carmichael College in 1971, was the chief of the Islami Chhatra Shangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. Charges brought against him include murder of 1,225 people in Rangpur, murder of four more, abduction of 17 people, torture on 13 people, and arson, according to a news agency.