Mir Quasem Ali verdict any day
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Bangladesh's second war crimes tribunal is expected to deliver a verdict in Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali’s case any day now. Justice Obaidul Hassan-led ICT-2 finished hearing the arguments on Sunday. Mir Quasem Ali was indicted on September 5 last year on 14 charges including murder, abduction and torture. Founder of the Ibn Sina Trust and an owner of Diganta Media, Quasem Ali is said to be one of the top financiers of the party. Mir Quasem was arrested on June 17 in 2013 from the office of Naya Diganta, a daily newspaper, in less than two hours of the tribunal issuing a warrant of arrest. Later the tribunal sent him to jail. The prosecution on May 16, 2013, filed the charges against the Jamaat leader and the tribunal on May 26 had taken the charges into cognizance, according to bdnews24.com.