Top war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam has moved the Appellate Division challenging his life sentence in a war crimes case.
Published : 05 Aug 2013, 02:05 PM
His lawyer Tajul Islam said an application seeking acquittal had been submitted on Monday.
On Jul 15, the first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh found the 91-year-old guilty of all five types of crime – conspiracy, planning, incitement, complicity (abetment) and murder.
However, the judges said they took into account his age and state of his health while passing the verdict, sparing him death penalty.
The former Jamaat chief was given 20 years for the first two charges, 20 years each for the third and fourth, and another 30 years for the fifth charge.
Tribunal Chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir had said Azam will serve the sentence "consecutively or till his death".