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Bangladesh
Verdict today in Quader Mollah's case
2013-02-05
[Bangla Daily Star] Today, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 is going to deliver the verdict in the case filed against Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.

This would be the second verdict of the tribunal and the first against an incumbent leader of Jamaat.

The party contributed significantly to the creation of auxiliary forces during the Liberation War for combating unarmed Bangalee civilians in the name of protecting Pakistain, an earlier verdict of the tribunal said.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
today demanding the release of its top leaders being tried at the tribunal, scrapping of the tribunal altogether and to "protest the delivery of the verdict".

Yesterday, tribunal Registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud told news hounds at a press briefing that the Tribunal-2, the second of two courts, would deliver the verdict against Mollah, 65.

"The tribunal has directed [the authority concerned] to register [Quader Mollah's] the case into tomorrow's [Tuesday's] cause list to deliver its verdict. So, it could be said the verdict of [Quader Mollah's] the case will be delivered tomorrow," said the registrar.

Registrar Nasiruddin told The Daily Star, "Pronouncement of the verdict wouldn't be hampered by the hartal."

Mollah is facing six charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the nine-month-long war in 1971. According to the charges, Mollah "actively participated" in the killing of at least 381 unarmed people in Dhaka's Mirpur and Keraniganj areas in six different incidents.

Tajul Islam, a senior member of Mollah's defence team, told The Daily Star, "It may not be possible for defence counsels to participate in tomorrow's [Tuesday's] court proceedings during the hartal. I personally will not go. One or two junior members [of defence team] may go to the court."

Asked what would happen if defence counsels did not appear before the court today, the registrar said, "As per law, their [lawyers] absence would not create any problem."

An initiative has been taken to produce the accused before the tribunal today, he said, adding that extra measures have also been taken to ensure security.

On January 17, the three-member Tribunal-2, led by Justice Obaidul Hassan with members Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Judge M Shahinur Islam kept Mollah's case waiting for verdict after conclusion of the closing arguments.

On January 21, the same tribunal made history by sentencing expelled Jamaat member Abul Kalam Azad to death, in its maiden judgment, for genocide and crimes against humanity during the war.

The case against another Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
is kept waiting for verdict at Tribunal-1.

While wrapping up its arguments in the case against Mollah, the prosecution sought capital punishment claiming that it had proved the charges brought against him.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Mutual of Bangla is gonna be paying out big
Posted by: Frank G   2013-02-05 11:07  

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