Ghulam Azam at ICT

Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam is up on the dock at the International Crimes tribunal-1 which is all set to deliver a verdict on him.

The ICT-1 Chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and the tribunal’s two other judges Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Anwarul Haque have arrived at the tribunal to deliver the verdict on Azam’s involvement with war crimes during the 1971 Liberation war.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Imanul Islam told bdnews24.com Correspondent Kamal Hossain Talukder that the Jamaat guru had started from the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital at 10am Monday.

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bdnews24.com Correspondent Suliman Niloy confirmed Azam’s entry at the tribunal at 10:05am in an ambulance.

The tribunal is scheduled to start reading out the verdict from 10:30am. Traffic on the streets around the tribunal is being diverted as a security precaution.

Security has also been beefed up at the ICT premises since Sunday.

The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh had charged Ghulam Azam, who led the Jamaat-e-Islami during the 1971 Liberation War, with crimes against humanity during the war.

The ICT-1 indicted Azam on five war crimes charges – 61 counts –including incitement, conspiracy, planning, abetment and failure to prevent crimes against humanity during the War of Independence.