1971

Oh Pakistan!

It is really not a surprise that Pakistan would make a statement which pretty much echoes what the research has been revealing all along: that Pakistan justifies the war crimes; that Pakistan will not take responsibility for the harm they inflicted on an entire people in 1971.
10 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Pakistan still in denial and self-deceit

More than four decades on, the present day government of Pakistan has unabashedly and deliberately chosen to deny history. This is not just shameful; it is infinitely more immoral.
8 December 2015, 18:00 PM

UK hails Hasina’s zero-tolerance policy on terrorism

The United Kingdom has hailed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s zero-tolerance policy on terrorism.
26 November 2015, 05:16 AM

Halt execution of Mojaheed, SQ Chy: HRW

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon the government to halt the execution of death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
20 November 2015, 06:41 AM

Mojaheed, SQ Chy to hang for war crimes as SC upholds ICT verdict

Supreme Court maintains its previous ruling upholding death penalties for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami's Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 War of Independence.
18 November 2015, 04:23 AM

SQ Chy wants deposition of 5 Pakistanis

Condemned war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury files a petition praying to the Supreme Court to record statements of eight including five Pakistanis during hearing of his review plea.
19 October 2015, 07:26 AM

War crimes: Condemned Mojaheed, SQ Chy seek review

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP’s Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have sought review of Supreme Court verdicts that upheld their death penalties for war crimes. Mojaheed has filed a 38-page review plea citing 32 grounds while the BNP leader has moved a 108-page petition.
14 October 2015, 04:43 AM

Death warrants issued for SQ Chy, Mojaheed

A war crimes tribunal has issued death warrants for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. The warrants will be soon sent to authorities concerned and initiate the process of execution.
1 October 2015, 09:04 AM

War crimes: SQ Chy, Mojaheed’s full verdict released

Condemned war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed can seek review of SC verdict in 15 days.
30 September 2015, 10:09 AM

One war crimes tribunal to be inactive from Sunday

When different organisations are demanding an increase in the number of war crimes tribunals for quick prosecution of war crimes suspects, the government initiates a process to keep one of the tribunals dormant.
3 September 2015, 07:51 AM

Rayerbazar memorial

The Rayerbazar momorial is the site we go to pay our respects every year to intellectuals massacred on the eve of victory on December 14, 1971.
11 August 2015, 18:00 PM

SQ Chy innocent, son claims after verdict

After the apex court upheld death penalty for war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, his son claims the BNP leader’s innocence.
29 July 2015, 05:09 AM

Bagerhat ‘Razakar’ Abdul Latif dies

War crimes suspect of Bagerhat Abdul Latif Talukdar dies from old age complications attending treatments at a Dhaka hospital.
28 July 2015, 04:52 AM

State pleads upholding SQ Chy’s death

State pleads the apex court to uphold death for convicted war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury at appeal hearing.
1 July 2015, 09:57 AM

Trial of 4 ‘war criminals’ to begin in absentia

ICT-1 decides to hold trial of four alleged Razakars of Kishoreganj in absentia.
1 July 2015, 09:19 AM

Evidence leading to Mojaheed’s punishment

The International Crimes Tribunal cited several evidences in the death verdict it handed down to Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, the notorious al-Badr chief of 1971.
16 June 2015, 09:17 AM

Justice comes after she goes

“I want them to be punished. My heart wants it.” This was possibly her only wish after she lost her husband during the Liberation War in 1971.
16 June 2015, 06:58 AM

They can now rest in peace

It was a phone call that gave words to a long endured pain and wait. Perhaps that is why Saif Imam Jami called back from a different time zone, taking time out of his busy office hours.
16 June 2015, 06:46 AM

ICT gets new registrar

The government appoints Shahidul Alam Jhinuk, judge of Dhaka Special Court-3, as the registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal.
14 June 2015, 14:01 PM

The trial is more important than the accused

Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.
30 March 2015, 18:00 PM