Mueen Uddin, Ashraf ‘abducted Prof Gias’
Martyred intellectual Prof Giasuddin Ahmed’s niece yesterday testified that Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan had abducted her maternal uncle from Dhaka University campus on December 14,...
View ArticleDefended only by his son
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 began dealing with Ghulam Azam’s case in December, 2011, but returned the charges to the prosecution as there were a number of flaws in the submitted charges. The...
View ArticleJamaat rejects judgment
The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday rejected the verdict against its former chief Ghulam Azam; the ruling Awami League appreciated it while the main opposition BNP is saving its reaction to the conviction...
View ArticleIt was one of top five genocides
The atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971 are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the top five genocides of the 20th century. International Crimes Tribunal-1...
View ArticleBoth unhappy
Both the prosecution and the defence have expressed dissatisfaction over the verdict in Ghulam Azam’s case, and said they would appeal against the verdict. Prosecution counsel Tureen Afroz, who was in...
View ArticleAnti-liberation all along
Ghulam Azam, convicted for war crimes in 1971, continued his crusade to thwart the emergence and survival of Bangladesh even after the nine-month-long blood-spattered Liberation War in 1971, as he...
View ArticleHartal call from rival sides
Gonojagoron Mancha and Jamaat-e-Islami have separately called a countrywide daylong hartal for today, protesting the verdict in the war crimes case against former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam. Their...
View ArticleJamaat criminal organisation
Terming the Jamaat-e-Islami “a criminal organisation” over its Liberation War role, International Crimes Tribunal-1 suggested that the government ban anti-liberation people from holding key positions...
View ArticleGHULAM AZAM Deserves death, gets 90 years
Forty-two years after liberation, a panel of judges yesterday sentenced Ghulam Azam to 90 years in prison for masterminding crimes against humanity, genocide and other wartime offences in 1971. The...
View ArticleGaddafi compound to turn into amusement park
Slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling residence in Tripoli, Bab al-Aziziya, will be turned into an amusement park under plans announced on Tuesday by the tourism minister. “The work to...
View ArticleMyanmar leader to meet Hollande in Paris
Myanmar President Thein Sein was to meet his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris yesterday, as rights campaigners reacted sceptically to his promise to free all political prisoners. The...
View Article4 cops, prisoner injured in Kashmir attack
Suspected rebels wounded four police officers and a prisoner in Indian Kashmir when they lobbed a grenade at their vehicle yesterday, police said. The attack happened while the police vehicle was...
View ArticleAnger as China law expert defends rape of bar waitress
A legal expert at a top Chinese university has inflamed controversy over a gang-rape case by calling the act less harmful if the victim was a bar waitress. Charges last week against Li Tianyi — the...
View ArticleIran reshuffles hardline electoral body
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday appointed four clerics to Iran’s powerful Guardians Council, a body dominated by ultra-conservatives that interprets the constitution and supervises...
View ArticleAbe visits island near disputed chain
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday visited coastguards who patrol waters around islands at the centre of a dispute with China, as election campaigning stepped up a gear. Abe was in the remote...
View ArticleNotorious law put under scanner
US Attorney General Eric Holder has urged a rethink of “stand-your-ground” self-defense laws following the acquittal of a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in...
View ArticleShipwreck captain’s trial resumes in Italy
The trial of cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino resumed yesterday, with the defendant dubbed “Italy’s most hated man” facing 20 years in prison for a spectacular 2012 wreck in which 32 people lost...
View ArticleSyria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN
Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria’s war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said Tuesday. A host of top officials called on the...
View ArticleGaddafi compound to turn into amusement park
Slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling residence in Tripoli, Bab al-Aziziya, will be turned into an amusement park under plans announced on Tuesday by the tourism minister. “The work to...
View ArticleWWII bomb evacuates 1,500 in Budapest
Hungarian police evacuated around 1,500 people in Budapest yesterday after a World War II bomb was discovered during construction work at an apartment block near Buda Castle. “Around 80 residential...
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