Rumours about Ghulam Azam\\\'s death

Rumours of Jamaat-e-Islami's former Ameer Ghulam Azam’s death have been dispelled by the authorities of MSMMU Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. A day after Jamaat issued a statement expressing concern over his health, rumours of condemned convict Ghulam Azam’s death spread in the social media on Tuesday. Ghulam Azam is undergoing treatment in the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital. BSMMU Director Brig Gen Abdul Majid Bhuiyan on Tuesday said that it was a rumour. ‘He has said his Maghrib prayers as usual and taken a light meal,’ Brig Gen Abdul Majid Bhuiyan said. Prison DG Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin also confirmed that the rumours were untrue. Azam’s son Abdullahil Amaan Azmi contacted the prison authorities after hearing the rumours. ‘I asked them and found out the news was false,’ he said. On Monday Jamaat issued a statement saying they were deeply concerned over the ‘news’ of Azam’s health being deteriorating and the government was ‘illegally’ keeping him in prison and ‘depriving’ him of treatment. Last year the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced 90-year-old Ghulam Azam prison until death for crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971, according to bdnews24.com.