Death penalty for Azharul
Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam was awarded death penalty on three charges of genocide, mass killing and crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The Al-Badr commander of Rangpur was also sentenced to 25 and five years imprisonment on two other charges as the International Crimes Tribunal-1 found him guilty for five out of six charges.
Azharul, the assistant secretary general of Jamaat, was president of Rangpur district unit Islami Chhatra Sangha in 1971.
5 out of 6 charges proved
Death penalty on charges of genocide, mass killing and crimes against humanity
25 years imprisonment for rape
5 years imprisonment for torture
While reading out the summary of the 158-page verdict, Chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1 Justice...