Top Bangladeshi Jamaat leader sentenced to hold for war crimes

A.T.M Azharul Islam, 62, became the sixteenth person and therefore the eleventh Mohammedan to be guilty of atrocities by the International Crimes judicature, that found him guilty of being a key member of a militia.Azharul Islam is that the assistant Secretary General of the nation's largest non secular party, the Jamaat-i-Islami.

Since it had been established by Prime Minister tribal sheikh Hasina's government in 2010, the questionable International Crimes judicature has sentenced around a dozen opposition leaders for war crimes.The nine-month war in 1972 saw what was then Asian country separate from from the regime in Islamabad.

Read: People's Republic of Bangladesh sentences another high Jemaah Islamiyah leader to deathHe was ordered hanged by the neck for the race murder within the northern district of rangpur lime. No doubt, it had been execution, presiding decide Enayetur Rahim told a packed court.

Read: People's Republic of Bangladesh war crimes judicature sentences Jemaah Islamiyah chief to deathRights teams have criticised the trials, spoken communication they come short of international standards and lack any international oversight.