Staff Reporter :The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will deliver its verdict today (Tuesday) on Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for his alleged crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. ICT- 1 fixed the date on Monday morning.The tribunal indicted him on November 12 last year on six specific charges of crimes against humanity. The charges include abduction, confinement, murder, genocide, looting and arson. The defence for ATM Azharul Islam concluded placing arguments at the tribunal on September 14. In their closing arguments, the prosecution on August 26 sought death penalty for Azhar.A total of 19 witnesses testified against the accused. Of them, the prosecution declared their seventh witness hostile. The defence produced a relative of Azhar to testify in his favour.According to the case, Azhar, now 61, was a commander of Rangpur district unit of al-Badr during the war.Azharul was arrested from his Moghbazar residence in the capital on August 23 last year, and produced before the tribunal three days later. He has since been kept in jail.
