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In tears, he recalls wife, daughter’s torture in ’71
Dhaka, Jan 29 (bdnews24.com) — Giving testimony lying down on a hospital bed, the prosecution’s 23rd witness against Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee could not hold back his tears on Wednesday, remembering his long-lost wife and daughter soon after the 1971 Liberation War.
Octogenarian Madhusudan Gharami told the war crimes tribunal that Razakars, a notorious band of collaborators during the war, had attacked his house and raped his wife.
The International Crimes Tribunal has indicted the Jamaat-e-Islami executive council member on 20 counts of crimes, including murder, rape, arson and loot.
Charges against Mojahid taken into cognizance
Dhaka, Jan 26: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Thursday took 1971 war crimes charges against Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid into cognizance.
5 Hizb ut-Tahrir members held
DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five members of Hizb ut-Tahrir from the city on Friday, a day after the army said it had foiled a coup plotted by Maj Syed Mohammad Ziaul Huq, said to have links with the banned Islamist outfit.
A RAB detective was injured during the arrests at Road-8, Sector–6 of Uttara after the Jum’a prayers, Maj Ahsan of RAB–1 told bdnews24.com.
He, however, could not immediately name the injured RAB member or the detainees.
ICT receives charges against Mojaheed
DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday received the revised formal charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in connection with crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation War.
Sayedee helped Pak army: witness
Dhaka, Jan 2 (bdnews24.com) — Witness Mohammad Mostofa Hawlader said on Monday Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee helped the Pakistani army target the Hindu community as they launched their brutal attack on them in Pirojpur district in 1971.
Hawlader made the comment as he was being cross-examined by defence counsels for a second day Monday before the International Crimes Tribunal.
In response to queries by Sayedee’s lawyer Mizanul Islam, Hawlader said the Pakistani military began their crackdown and unleashed arson attacks on the Hindu people in the southern district with the help of Sayedee and his supporters.
Formal charges deadline reset to Dec 11
Dhaka, Dec 5 (bdnews24.com)—The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has deferred the deadline to Dec 11 for the prosecution to submit formal charges against four top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami.
The Tribunal, which is hearing the charges of crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, set the new date when chief prosecutor Ghulam Arieff Tipu on Monday sought time to present the charges, saying ‘some’ work was yet to be done.
The original deadline ended on Monday.
Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla were produced before the court.
Ban Ki-moon leaves Dhaka
Dhaka, Nov 16 (bdnews24.com)— UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has left Dhaka after a three-day official visit to Bangladesh.
He left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Thailand around 8.50am on Wednesday, the foreign affairs ministry’s external publicity wing director general Mohammad Shamim Ahsan told bdnews24.com.
Ban is scheduled to visit the flood-affected areas of Thailand and meet the country’s prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
The final leg of his trip would take him to Indonesia where he would visit a community health centre and meet representatives of communities affected by deforestation in the central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo.
Migrants’ tales – Mixed fortunes in the city: Part III
Like Monin and Ahsan, Dulal also left his village called Chadpur some time ago in the search for better income opportunities. His wife and their 5 and 9 year old sons joined him after some years in order to have access to better health facilities and to offer them the chance to go to school. In their small hut, they have a broad bed which is used by the whole family for sleeping, eating and living on. Dim light floods the room from a single bulb in their room. Besides the bed, there is a commode with dishes inside and an old TV on top. Having these facilities, Dulal’s family is better off than many other people in the area who do not have the means to maintain such a lifestyle. Right beside their house I leave the slum and enter directly into a lively street. Not far from here is a school, where many of the children in the slum go. On each side of the street, I see hawkers working, tailors with their sewing machines and road side vendors selling cloth or vegetables from the fields outside of Narayanganj. A large variety of options offer work places compared to the original villages of the people.
Dulal has developed his business as a tea-vendor working at the bazaar, after starting first as a blue-collar worker in local factories and the construction business. Compared to life in his village, he and his family now have a far better standard of living. Thus, living in the slum does not always go hand in hand with deprivation and marginalization. For a significant number it really does offer a way out of poverty through access to the labor market. It is not surprising therefore that so many people risk poor living conditions and sanitation facilities to gamble for a better life.
(A tailor at the side of a street: Many slum inhabitants locate their businesses closely to the slum areas)
GREANADE ATTACK Indictment deferred again
Dhaka, Sep 21 (bdnews24.com) — The indictment in the Aug21 grenade attack case against Tarique Rahman and other accused has been rescheduled to Sept 27.
The judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal Shahed Nur Uddin on Wednesday made the decision after defence counsels appealed for more time, claiming again that they had not received copies of the charge sheet.
This is the second time the hearing has been deferred on the same reason. The defence lawyers had pleaded so when the court last time sat on Sep 15.
All the arrested accused were produced before the court for the hearing.
GREANADE ATTACK Indictment deferred again
Dhaka, Sep 21 (bdnews24.com) — The indictment in the Aug21 grenade attack case against Tarique Rahman and other accused has been rescheduled to Sept 27.
The judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal Shahed Nur Uddin on Wednesday made the decision after defence counsels appealed for more time, claiming again that they had not received copies of the charge sheet.
This is the second time the hearing has been deferred on the same reason. The defence lawyers had pleaded so when the court last time sat on Sep 15.
All the arrested accused were produced before the court for the hearing.
DHAKA – MYMENSINGH Highway is Most NEGLECTED Highway.
Khaleda prays for Jamaat leaders’ release
Dhaka, Aug 6 (bdnews24.com) – The BNP chairperson at a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Iftar party joins their prayer for the release of its top leaders, currently behind bars on charges of crimes against humanity.
The special prayers were offered at the Iftar party hosted by Jamaat, a key ally of the main opposition, at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the city on Saturday.
Prayers were also offered for good health of Khaleda, so that she continues to lead the protest against the government successfully.
BREAKING NEWS’No foreign lawyers for Jamaat leaders’
Dhaka, July 23 (bdnews24.com) — The Bangladesh Bar Council has turned down an appeal to appoint foreign lawyers for the top five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders detained on charges of crimes against humanity, the council chairman has said.
Mahbubey Alam, also the attorney general, on Saturday told bdnews24.com that the plea filed by lawyers of the Jamaat leaders on July 17 was turned down as the council ‘cannot provide certificate’ to anyone other than Bangladeshi lawyers.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, executive council member Delwar Hossain Sayedee and two assistant secretaries-general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Muhammad Abdul Quader Molla are now in jail as they are facing charges for crimes against humanity perpetrated during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Quader Molla being quizzed at safe home
Assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Abdul Quader Molla is being interrogated on Wednesday at a ‘safe home’ in the city’s Dhanmondi area in connection with crimes against humanity in 1971.
A four-member investigation team started interrogating the Jamaat leader at about 10:00am, which will continue till 5:00pm with a one-hour break.
Earlier, he was taken to the ‘safe home’ from Dhaka Central Jail at around 9:00am.
The International Crimes Tribunal on June 1 allowed the investigation agency to interrogate Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, the two assistant secretaries general of Jamaat, for one day each on charges of crimes against humanity.
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