The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Council has turned down an appeal to appoint foreign lawyers for the top five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders detained on charges of crimes against humanity, the attorney general has said.
Mahbubey Alam, also the council chairman, on Saturday told the news agency that the plea filed by lawyers for the Jamaat leaders on July 17 was turned down as the council 'cannot provide certificate' to anyone other than Bangladeshi lawyers.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, executive council member Delwar Hossain Sayedee and two assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla are now in jail facing war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated during country's liberation war in 1971.
Charges have been pressed against Sayedee to the International Crimes Tribunal, and a hearing on it is scheduled for August 10. Investigations against others are under process.
BNP leaders Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Abdul Alim, a minister of Ziaur Rahman's cabinet, are also facing war crime charges.
Soruce : New Age
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