Mehedi Hasan Pias,
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Published: 12 Feb 2021 01:26 AM BdST
Updated: 12 Feb 2021 02:31 AM BdST
The International Crimes Tribunal has acquitted a war crimes suspect, the first instance of acquittal by the tribunal in the 42 verdicts it has delivered. );
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Besides acquitting Md Abdul Latif, the tribunal on Thursday sentenced three people to prison until death and jailed five others for 20 years each for crimes like abduction, detention, torture and killing in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon and Bhaluka during the 1971 Liberation War.
The prosecution said in the charge-sheet that Latif had joined the Razakar force to collaborate with the Pakistani Army during the war. His name was found on a list of the local members of Razakar.
3 get prison until death for crimes during Bangladesh liberation war 1 minute read
Dhaka, Feb 11 (efe-epa).- Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal sentenced three people in jail until death and five more to 20 years in prison on Thursday for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 struggle for independence from Pakistan.
The three-judge panel of the International Crimes Tribunal, led by Justice Md Shahinur Islam, acquitted one of the accused in the killing of four people in Mymensingh five decades ago, Prosecutor Shahidur Rahman told EFE.
The prosecution had also charged the convicts for torturing nine people in confinement, arson attacks on four villages and looting during the war, the prosecutor said.
IEB demands ban on Al Jazeera’s broadcast
BSS
5th February, 2021 05:25:23
The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) has demanded a ban on Al Jazeera’s broadcast, alleging that the Qatar-based media outlet is intriguing against Bangladesh as a mouthpiece of Bangladesh’s anti-liberation force Jamaat-e-Islami.
“Al-Jazeera has been distorting the history of our great liberation war for long and continuously sparking militancy,” the IEB executive committee leaders said in a statement on Friday.
They said that Al-Jazeera was not only spreading biased news in case of Bangladesh, rather, their role in this regard was well known in the international arena.
Army HQ condemns Al Jazeera report
Govt terms it ‘false, politically motivated smear campaign’ Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh authorities have termed an Al Jazeera investigative report false, defamatory and a politically motivated smear campaign intended to disrupt the harmony among different government organs of the country and destabilise the secular democratic government of Bangladesh.
In a rejoinder yesterday, Bangladesh Army Headquarters said it condemns in the strongest possible words the concocted and ill-intended report by a vested group in the news channel Al-Jazeera titled All the Prime Minister s Men aired yesterday. This, in fact, is a sequel by the same vested group which has been attempting to destabilise the country in the recent times, said Inter Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR).