The war crimes tribunal has adjourned witness testimony and
cross-examination in Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's case to
Tuesday (Jan 24).
The International War Crimes Tribunal gave the order as the prosecution said its 15th witness, Madhushudan Gharami, a man of 80, was still not physically well enough to testify.
Prosecutor Rana Das Gupta told the court that they could not produce the witness since he was not well after having travelled a long way.
The tribunal, set up to try crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, has indicted the Jamaat executive council member Sayedee on 20 counts of war crimes, including murder, rape, arson and loot.
The tribunal also deferred its ruling on taking charges against Jamaat assistant secretary general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman.
Nizamul Huq said that the tribunal had not been able finish reading all the documents to able it to give an order regarding cognisance of the charges.
Sayedee's is the first case to proceed to trial at the tribunal. The prosecution on Sept 4, 2011, proposed the framing of charges against Sayedee on 31 counts for crimes against humanity and genocide in the first case of the tribunal. The tribunal indicted Sayedee on 20 counts on Oct 3.
The tribunal also ordered Jamaat's guru, and a former party chief, Ghulam Azam to jail on Jan 11. His indictment hearing, as well as that of the current Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, has been scheduled for Feb 15.
Apart from Sayedee, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, and Bangladesh Nationalist Party's standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, also a lawmaker, have been detained, along with others, on charges of war crimes.
The tribunal, however, on March 31 last year, granted conditional bail to former BNP MP and minister Abdul Alim. The bail was extended further on Jan 16 ordering him to be present in the court on Mar 15, when the prosecution has been directed to submit formal charges against the BNP leader.
The International War Crimes Tribunal gave the order as the prosecution said its 15th witness, Madhushudan Gharami, a man of 80, was still not physically well enough to testify.
Prosecutor Rana Das Gupta told the court that they could not produce the witness since he was not well after having travelled a long way.
The tribunal, set up to try crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, has indicted the Jamaat executive council member Sayedee on 20 counts of war crimes, including murder, rape, arson and loot.
The tribunal also deferred its ruling on taking charges against Jamaat assistant secretary general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman.
Nizamul Huq said that the tribunal had not been able finish reading all the documents to able it to give an order regarding cognisance of the charges.
Sayedee's is the first case to proceed to trial at the tribunal. The prosecution on Sept 4, 2011, proposed the framing of charges against Sayedee on 31 counts for crimes against humanity and genocide in the first case of the tribunal. The tribunal indicted Sayedee on 20 counts on Oct 3.
The tribunal also ordered Jamaat's guru, and a former party chief, Ghulam Azam to jail on Jan 11. His indictment hearing, as well as that of the current Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, has been scheduled for Feb 15.
Apart from Sayedee, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, and Bangladesh Nationalist Party's standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, also a lawmaker, have been detained, along with others, on charges of war crimes.
The tribunal, however, on March 31 last year, granted conditional bail to former BNP MP and minister Abdul Alim. The bail was extended further on Jan 16 ordering him to be present in the court on Mar 15, when the prosecution has been directed to submit formal charges against the BNP leader.
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