Ghulam Azam\\\'s body handed over to family

The body of war crimes convict Prof Ghulam Azam was handed over to his family on Friday morning. Azam, 92, died at the BSMMU on Thursday night after serving 13 months of his 90-year jail term for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's independence struggles in 1071. Jailor Md Nesar Alam of the Dhaka Central Jail said the body was handed over at 7:20am today (Oct 24) after a post-mortem. His family took his body to his Moghbazar residence. Azam, the retired Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, had been kept at the BSMMU prison cell since his war crimes trial started in January, 2012. Bangladesh’s first war crimes tribunal sentenced him to 90 years in jail, considering his age and health, on July 15 last year. His family said he will be buried at their family graveyard at Moghbazar. Abdullahil Azmi, his son, said the burial will take place after his other siblings returned from abroad. Until then, Azam’s body will be kept in a mortuary of a city hospital, according to a news agency.