Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)– Law enforcers produced Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 as the tribunal is set to deliver the verdict in a war crimes case against the Jamaat leader Thursday morning.
Earlier, a prison van carrying Sayedee entered the tribunal premises around 9:30am amid tight security.
Security has been beefed up in and around the tribunal prior to the proclamation of the verdict, the Daily Star, a local newspaper, reported.
Sayedee, 73, was facing 20 charges of crimes against humanity including looting, killing, arson, rape and forcefully converting people into Muslims during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Thursday’s verdict will be the maiden Judgement of the ICT-1. But it would be the third war crimes verdict to be delivered.
Earlier, the ICT-2 delivered the verdict in two war crimes cases filed against Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar and Abdul Quader Mollah.
Like the day the verdict in Jamaat leader Quader Mollah’s case was delivered, Jamaat-e-Islami called for countrywide dawn-to-dusk strike on Thursday assuming that “an unjust punishment would be awarded to Sayedee”.
In the meantime, nearly one hundred people under the banner of Muktijoddha Sangsad have been demonstrating near the tribunal compound demanding death penalty to Sayedee.
Meanwhile, youths of the unprecedented movement, demanding capital punishment to war criminals, gathered at the Gonojagoron Mancha at Shahbagh Wednesday evening to resist Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir’s possible violence and covert attacks.
BBN/SSR/AD-28Feb13- 12:05 pm (BST)
