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Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami’s condition was ‘much better’, Dhaka Central Jail authorities has said. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Tuesday postponed the war crimes trial verdict on Nizami after being informed about the Jamaat leader’s illness. Doctors examined him in the jail and advised ‘close observation’. Asked about his condition, the prison’s Senior Superintendent Farman Ali told said: ‘His (Nizami) condition is much better than on Tuesday.’ The 71-year-old Jamaat leader’s blood pressure was under control, Ali said, adding that the jail’s doctors were treating Nizami. The Jamaat has already demanded Nizami’s release, claiming ‘proper treatment’ was not possible in judicial custody. The Ganajagaran Mancha has, meanwhile, has attributed the war crimes verdict postponement as a ‘conspiracy and a cunning move’. The ICT scheduled Tuesday for announcing Nizami’s verdict on 16 counts of crimes including murder, rape, looting, abetment and the massacre during Bangladesh's War of Independence in 1971, according to bdnews24.com.