Month: July 2021

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. 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 …

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The International Crimes Tribunal has granted bail of two war crimes suspects – Daud Sheikh and Md Abdur Rashid Mia – considering their health conditions. A two-member bench headed by Justice Md Shahinur Islam passed the order after hearing from prosecution and defence on Monday. Advocate Abdus Sattar Palwan represented the defendants while Prosecutor Razia …

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He had incited his cohorts to annihilate freedom fighters and pro-liberation Bangalees at a meeting in the Bangla month of Shraban in 1971. Two months later, Shakhawat Hossain led his men to abduct, confine, torture and kill people in Jessore. As a commander of a Razakar camp at Chingra in Keshabpur, he directly took part …

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The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Thursday sentenced three people of Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh to jail unto death for their crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The three-member tribunal, led by Justice Shahinur Islam, also sentenced five people to 20 years’ imprisonment in the case. Those who were jailed unto death are …

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A writ was filed with the High Court on Monday seeking its directive to stop private practice by the physicians of government hospitals during their office hours, reports UNB. Five Supreme Court lawyers — Abdus Sattar Palwan, Salah Uddin Regan, Sujad Mia, Aminul Haq and Kawsar Uddin Mondal — filed the writ petition which is …

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The High Court yesterday directed the government to form an independent medical commission to frame a guideline for those state-appointed doctors who also run private medical practices. It also issued a rule asking the respondents to explain why the section of the relevant law that allows state-appointed doctors to run private medical practice beyond their …

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