UNB, Gazipur :
Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, who awaits judgment on the trial of war crimes perpetrated against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, was shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Jail on Monday ahead of the verdict.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 is set to pronounce its judgment on Tuesday in the war crimes case against the Jamaat chief. Nizami was taken out of ‘Nilgiri’ cell of the Kashimpur High Security Jail around 5pm, said jailer Jannatul Farhad.
A former minister during the past BNP-Jamaat rule, Nizami, already awarded capital punishment in the sensational 10-truck arms haul case, faced the trial on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
The charges are based on 16 separate incidents of crimes against humanity, in which at least 600 unarmed people were killed and at least 40 women raped during the Liberation War.
On December 11, 2011, the prosecution submitted the formal charges against the Jamaat leader before the tribunal.
The tribunal on January 9, 2012 took cognisance of the formal charges against Nizami for facing the trial of crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War.
On May 28, 2012, the tribunal indicted the Jamaat ameer for committing the 1971 crimes against humanity.
Nizami was arrested in front of the National Press Club on June 29, 2010 after a magistrate court in Dhaka issued a warrant of arrest in connection with a criminal case over hurting the religious sentiment of Muslims. Later, on August 2, 2010, he was shown arrested in the war crimes case.
