Ganajagaran Mancha to demonstrate nonstop at Shahbagh before Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s verdict 

Ganajagaran Mancha that burst onto the global scene two years ago with the demand for maximum punishment of war criminals will hold continuous demonstrations before Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s final verdict. 

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 23 July 2015, 05:22 PM
Updated : 26 July 2015, 05:02 PM

The Supreme Court will deliver a verdict on Chowdhury’s appeal against the death penalty on Jul 29.  
 
In 2013, International Crimes Tribunal-1 convicted the BNP leader of genocide and deadly torture of Hindus and Awami League supporters in Chittagong.  
 
His reign of terror included running a torture cell with his father, Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, in their Goods Hill house.
 

The platform will keep holding demonstrations to make sure the death penalty is not reduced or overturned, Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar told bdnews24.com on Thursday. 
“A foreign media outlet has recently reported that his (Chowdhury) family has already met the chief justice.
“He is a top leader of a major political party. His national and international lobbying is quite strong. There is adequate fear and doubt about whether these factors can influence the judgment.”  
The death sentence awarded to Delwar Hossain Sayedee for heinous crimes against humanity was reduced to ‘imprisonment until death’ by the Supreme Court.
Sarkar said Chowdhury had tried to throw the tribunal into controversy several times.
He urged everyone ‘who believes in the spirit of the Liberation War’ to take to the street in order to stop ‘plots by forces against independence over the verdict’.
He said their demonstration would start through a sit-in on Friday and continue until July 29.
The next programmes would be announced on Friday, he said.
The Mancha spokesperson said the influential former BNP MP was the ‘most atrocious and cruel’ among those convicted for crimes against humanity until now.
“He led the grand festival of killings in Chittagong in 1971. His involvement in all the war crimes committed in Chittagong has been proven,” he said.
The first war crimes tribunal on Oct 1, 2013 sentenced Chowdhury to death for his atrocities during the war against Pakistan.
He was found guilty of murdering Kundeshwari Oushadhalaya owner Nutan Chandra Singha, genocide of Hindus at Sultanpur and Unsattar Parha, and abduction and murder of a Hathazari Awami League leader and his son Sheikh Alamgir.
Chowdhury, arrested on Dec 16, 2010, was the first sitting MP to be convicted of war crimes. The BNP Standing Committee member challenged the verdict in court on Oct 29 the same year.
His wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury and Hummam Quader Chowdhury are among seven accused of leaking the ICT verdict before it was handed down.