Azhar\\\'s war crimes verdict Tuesday

Bangladesh’s first war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam on Tuesday. Hearing in the Jamaat assistant secretary general’s case was completed on September 18. The ICT-1, headed by Justice Enayetur Rahim, fixed the date on Monday. The Jamaat leader, indicted on November 12 last year, stands accused of murder, genocide, abduction, torture, and rape in Rangpur during the country’s independence struggles in 1971. Azhar was a higher secondary student at Rangpur’s Carmichael College in 1971 and also a leader of the Islami Chhatra Shangha, the then student front of Jamaat. He was arrested from his Moghbazar residence on August 22, 2012, and has been in jail since then, according to a news agency.