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Dhaka, Jun 17 (bdnews24.com) — The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh on Sunday sent Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali to jail hours after police detectives had arrested him on charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Independence.
The tribunal rejected Quasem Ali's bail petition saying that it would not hold any hearing on the day.
The Jamaat executive council member was arrested from Naya Diganta newspaper office soon after the tribunal issued his arrest warrant, and kept him at the tribunal's jail waiting to produce him before the judges.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com Mir Quasem was being kept at the tribunal's jail and was expected to be produced before the judges soon.
DMP's Deputy Commissioner for Motijheel Division, Anwar Hossain, told bdnews24.com that Quasem, also head of Diganta Media Corporation, was arrested at daily newspaper Naya Diganta's offices around 3:45pm.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq, around 2:30pm had ordered police to arrest Mir Quasem and produce him before the tribunal in 24 hours.
Prosecutor Zead-Al-Malum told bdnews24.com they had submitted an application to that effect in the morning.
Mir Quasem is also an Islami Bank director, a member of Ibn Sina Trust, and director of non-governmental organisation Rabita al-Alam al-Islami.
The Jamaat leader's allegation include that he was the Chittagong unit commander of Al-Badr, a vigilante outfit mobilised by Jamaat's erstwhile student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and was third in outfit's command structure.
Such auxiliary forces like the Al-Badr, Al-Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the freedom struggle in 1971.
Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had allegedly taken place in Chittagong under his watch during the war. There are also allegations that he ordered the massacre and murders at the Razakar camps there.
Mir Quasem, who is from Manikganj's Harirampur, was better known as 'Mintu' to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during his college days.
He is also one of those who had made the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on Dec 14, 1971, only two days before the victory.
After independence, Mir Quasem had fled to Saudi Arabia and returned after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.
The war crimes tribunal is currently trying six Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including former and current party chiefs and main opposition BNP's two leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the war.
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The tribunal rejected Quasem Ali's bail petition saying that it would not hold any hearing on the day.
The Jamaat executive council member was arrested from Naya Diganta newspaper office soon after the tribunal issued his arrest warrant, and kept him at the tribunal's jail waiting to produce him before the judges.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com Mir Quasem was being kept at the tribunal's jail and was expected to be produced before the judges soon.
DMP's Deputy Commissioner for Motijheel Division, Anwar Hossain, told bdnews24.com that Quasem, also head of Diganta Media Corporation, was arrested at daily newspaper Naya Diganta's offices around 3:45pm.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq, around 2:30pm had ordered police to arrest Mir Quasem and produce him before the tribunal in 24 hours.
Prosecutor Zead-Al-Malum told bdnews24.com they had submitted an application to that effect in the morning.
Mir Quasem is also an Islami Bank director, a member of Ibn Sina Trust, and director of non-governmental organisation Rabita al-Alam al-Islami.
The Jamaat leader's allegation include that he was the Chittagong unit commander of Al-Badr, a vigilante outfit mobilised by Jamaat's erstwhile student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and was third in outfit's command structure.
Such auxiliary forces like the Al-Badr, Al-Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the freedom struggle in 1971.
Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had allegedly taken place in Chittagong under his watch during the war. There are also allegations that he ordered the massacre and murders at the Razakar camps there.
Mir Quasem, who is from Manikganj's Harirampur, was better known as 'Mintu' to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during his college days.
He is also one of those who had made the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on Dec 14, 1971, only two days before the victory.
After independence, Mir Quasem had fled to Saudi Arabia and returned after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.
The war crimes tribunal is currently trying six Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including former and current party chiefs and main opposition BNP's two leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the war.
bdnews24.com/lh/kt/pc/ta/trb/bd/1620h
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