UNB, Dhaka :
Condemned war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam filed an appeal on Wednesday with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the trial court verdict.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, barrister Shishir Manir, the counsel for Azharul, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, said the application for appeal, containing 90 pages with 113 grounds for seeking acquittal of the war crimes charges, was filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
Azharul, who faced six counts of charges, was awarded capital
punishment by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-1) on December 30 last year, on three counts of charges like murder, rape and genocide as crimes against humanity while rigorous imprisonment for 25 and 5 years’ on two almost similar counts of charges – abduction, confinement, torture and sexual violence.
The tribunal, however, merged all other sentences into the death first executed.
Azharul, now 61, was tried as a 1971 Rangpur commander of Al Badr, a secret killing squad of Jamaat-e-Islami and also an auxiliary force of the Pakistan occupation army.
Condemned war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam filed an appeal on Wednesday with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the trial court verdict.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, barrister Shishir Manir, the counsel for Azharul, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, said the application for appeal, containing 90 pages with 113 grounds for seeking acquittal of the war crimes charges, was filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
Azharul, who faced six counts of charges, was awarded capital
punishment by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-1) on December 30 last year, on three counts of charges like murder, rape and genocide as crimes against humanity while rigorous imprisonment for 25 and 5 years’ on two almost similar counts of charges – abduction, confinement, torture and sexual violence.
The tribunal, however, merged all other sentences into the death first executed.
Azharul, now 61, was tried as a 1971 Rangpur commander of Al Badr, a secret killing squad of Jamaat-e-Islami and also an auxiliary force of the Pakistan occupation army.
