Doctors visit Nizami in jail

Doctors examined Motiur Rahman Nizami at the Dhaka Central Jail and advised ‘close observation’ for the Jamaat-e-Islami chief, resulting in the postponement of his war crimes trial verdict, according to a news agency.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) deferred Nizami’s verdict scheduled for Tuesday because of his illness, said Dhaka Central Jail Senior Superintendent of Farman Ali.
The tribunal asked the prison authorities to submit a full report on Nizami’s health.
Nizami has been on trial, accused of committing war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Prison doctors examined the ailing Jamaat leader in the afternoon.
Nizami was suffering from high blood pressure, Farman Ali said. “Doctors said he was improving and advised that he be kept under close observation.
He declined to give any more details about Nizami’s ailment.
On the need to shift to him to any hospital, the jail superintendent said the doctors had made no such suggestion.
The Jamaat chief had been brought to the Dhaka prison from Gazipur’s Kashimpur Jail  Monday evening, the eve of the announcement of the verdict.