War Crimes

ICT order on Zafrullah’s contempt deferred

A tribunal in Dhaka defers the date of passing order on contempt of court proceedings against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury to September 1.
30 August 2015, 07:27 AM

Submit concise statement on Kashem’s appeal, SC asks AG

The Supreme Court today ordered the attorney general to submit a concise statement in two weeks on convicted war criminal Mir Kashem Ali’s appeal against his death sentence.
18 August 2015, 07:09 AM

2 Netrokona war crimes suspects land in jail

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 sends two war crimes of Netrakona to jail after police produced them before it.
13 August 2015, 06:31 AM

War trial: Death for Siraj, Akram jailed until death

A special tribunal finds two Bagerhat Razakars guilty of war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
11 August 2015, 04:48 AM

"Martyrs’ souls will now rest in peace" (video)

Abdul Hamid Mia remembers Salauddin Quader Chowdhury “very well,” back from the days of the battlefield of Bangladesh’s Liberation War.
30 July 2015, 08:40 AM

Leaking 2013 verdict couldn’t save SQ Chy

The dubious attempt of leaking of the ICT-1 verdict in 2013 to save condemned war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury proved ineffective after Supreme Court upheld a special tribunal’s death sentence handed to the BNP leader.
29 July 2015, 05:25 AM

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

Review after full verdict: Defence

Lawyers of war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury said of moving a review against the appeal verdict that upheld death penalty for the BNP leader.
29 July 2015, 04:13 AM

Execution after full verdict: AG

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses satisfaction with the apex court verdict that upheld death penalty for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
29 July 2015, 03:45 AM

SC upholds death penalty of BNP leader SQ Chy

Supreme Court upholds the death penalty of war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his crimes against humanity during Liberation War.
29 July 2015, 03:08 AM

Demand for SQ Chy’s death not contemptuous: AG

Gonojagoron Mancha’s demand for upholding death of war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury is not contemptuous, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says.
28 July 2015, 08:04 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

Charges pressed against ex-MP Shakhawat

Five charges are pressed against former BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and 11 others for their alleged role in war crimes.
26 July 2015, 06:03 AM

Advertise asking 6 Jamalpur ‘Al-Badr' men to surrender: ICT

A tribunal today ordered authorities concerned to advertise in newspapers asking six Jamalpur war crimes accused to surrender before it.
22 July 2015, 07:08 AM

'Nixon didn't give a fig for the 1971 genocide'

Former US president Richard Nixon “didn't give a fig for the genocide that was being committed in present-day Bangladesh”, says a Pulitzer winning New York Times journalist.
20 July 2015, 13:10 PM

Forkan Mallik gets death for war crimes

ICT-2 finds Patuakhali war criminal Forkan Mollik guilty in 3 out of 5 charges of war crimes during 1971, awards death for two of the charges.
16 July 2015, 04:53 AM

SQ Chy was in Bangladesh in 1971, AG tells SC

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today placed before the Supreme Court a report of the Daily Pakistan, which indicates that war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was in Bangladesh during the Liberation War in 1971.
8 July 2015, 05:23 AM

‘Razakar’ held after ICT issues arrest warrant

A war crimes suspect is arrested hours after a tribunal in Dhaka issued arrest warrant against two “Razakars” for their involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Kishoreganj in 1971.
7 July 2015, 06:19 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