The International Crimes Tribunal will decide on Tuesday about the bail plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali, who was arrested on Sunday on charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Independence.
The first war crimes tribunal's head judge, Mohammad Nizamul Huq, set the date after hearing the arguments for granting bail by defence lawyer Abdur Razzaque and the counter by prosecutor Zead-Al-Malum on Monday.
The Jamaat executive council member, who was being held at the tribunal's jail, was produced before the judges during the hearing.
The plea was initially filed by Mir Quasem Ali's lawyers when he was produced at court on Sunday evening following his arrest. However, the tribunal rejected to hear the plea saying no further hearing would be held on the day. It also ordered Mir Quasem Ali to be jailed, pending further proceedings, and scheduled the hearing for Monday.
Police arrested Mir Quasem Ali, also head of Diganta Media Corporation, from Naya Diganta newspaper office on Sunday afternoon, within an hour and a half of an arrest warrant issued by the tribunal.
He is also an Islami Bank director, a member of Ibn Sina Trust, and director of non-governmental organisation Rabita al-Alam al-Islami.
The charges against the Jamaat leader include that he was the Chittagong unit commander of Al-Badr, a vigilante outfit mobilised by Jamaat's erstwhile student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and was third in outfit's command structure.
Such auxiliary forces like the Al-Badr, Al-Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the freedom struggle in 1971.
Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had allegedly taken place in Chittagong under his watch during the war. There are also allegations that he ordered the massacre and murders at the Razakar camps there.
Mir Quasem Ali, who is from Manikganj's Harirampur, was better known as 'Mintu' to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during his college days.
He is also one of those who had made the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on Dec 14, 1971, only two days before the victory.
After independence, Mir Quasem Ali had fled to Saudi Arabia and returned after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.
Two war crimes tribunals are currently dealing with cases involving six Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including former and current party chiefs and main opposition BNP's two leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the war.
The first war crimes tribunal's head judge, Mohammad Nizamul Huq, set the date after hearing the arguments for granting bail by defence lawyer Abdur Razzaque and the counter by prosecutor Zead-Al-Malum on Monday.
The Jamaat executive council member, who was being held at the tribunal's jail, was produced before the judges during the hearing.
The plea was initially filed by Mir Quasem Ali's lawyers when he was produced at court on Sunday evening following his arrest. However, the tribunal rejected to hear the plea saying no further hearing would be held on the day. It also ordered Mir Quasem Ali to be jailed, pending further proceedings, and scheduled the hearing for Monday.
Police arrested Mir Quasem Ali, also head of Diganta Media Corporation, from Naya Diganta newspaper office on Sunday afternoon, within an hour and a half of an arrest warrant issued by the tribunal.
He is also an Islami Bank director, a member of Ibn Sina Trust, and director of non-governmental organisation Rabita al-Alam al-Islami.
The charges against the Jamaat leader include that he was the Chittagong unit commander of Al-Badr, a vigilante outfit mobilised by Jamaat's erstwhile student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and was third in outfit's command structure.
Such auxiliary forces like the Al-Badr, Al-Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the freedom struggle in 1971.
Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had allegedly taken place in Chittagong under his watch during the war. There are also allegations that he ordered the massacre and murders at the Razakar camps there.
Mir Quasem Ali, who is from Manikganj's Harirampur, was better known as 'Mintu' to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during his college days.
He is also one of those who had made the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on Dec 14, 1971, only two days before the victory.
After independence, Mir Quasem Ali had fled to Saudi Arabia and returned after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.
Two war crimes tribunals are currently dealing with cases involving six Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including former and current party chiefs and main opposition BNP's two leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the war.
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