Zia in trouble for ‘changing name of Gopalganj’ remark
2 Jan 2014 4:28 AM IST
President of the pro-Awami League Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, AB Siddique, filed a case with the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court two days after an angry Zia said if returned to power, she would change the name of southwestern Gopalganj, Hasina’s hometown. Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur, however, is expected to pass an order later today if the opposition leader should be charged for her comments on 29 December when police barred her from coming out of her residence as the opposition tried to stage their ‘march for democracy’ defying a government ban.
Zia harshly rebuked policewomen outside her residence at the upmarket Gulshan area and at one stage asked a female officer where she hailed from.
‘Listen to me, you the woman, where you hail from? Are you a Gopali? (in an apparent reference to Hasina’s hometown Gopalganj),’ she was heard saying even as the woman officer kept silent.
Top Bangladesh jamaat leader charged for criminality during ‘71 War
DHAKA: A top fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader was on Tuesday charged by a special Bangladeshi court with war crimes during the country’s 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Abdus Subhan, in his 70s, has been accused of ‘murder, genocide, loot, abduction, confinement, arson and torture.’ According to charges, Subhan committed the atrocities at different parts of his northwestern home district in Pabna from 17 April to 30 October 1971. ‘The charges are framed,’ International Crimes Tribunal chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir said, indicting Subhan of nine counts as he appeared on the dock and set January 28 as the date of hearing. Subhan, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’. He was arrested in September last year and his indictment came nearly three weeks after Bangladesh executed fellow party leader Abdul Quader Mollah on identical charges. The two special tribunals so far charged over a dozen of people with war crimes, mostly leaders of Jamaat which was opposed to Bangladesh’s independence. Until now the tribunals delivered verdicts in nine cases handing down capital punishment to six but other than Mollah no one was executed as subsequent appeal before SC.
Zia harshly rebuked policewomen outside her residence at the upmarket Gulshan area and at one stage asked a female officer where she hailed from.
‘Listen to me, you the woman, where you hail from? Are you a Gopali? (in an apparent reference to Hasina’s hometown Gopalganj),’ she was heard saying even as the woman officer kept silent.
Top Bangladesh jamaat leader charged for criminality during ‘71 War
DHAKA: A top fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader was on Tuesday charged by a special Bangladeshi court with war crimes during the country’s 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Abdus Subhan, in his 70s, has been accused of ‘murder, genocide, loot, abduction, confinement, arson and torture.’ According to charges, Subhan committed the atrocities at different parts of his northwestern home district in Pabna from 17 April to 30 October 1971. ‘The charges are framed,’ International Crimes Tribunal chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir said, indicting Subhan of nine counts as he appeared on the dock and set January 28 as the date of hearing. Subhan, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’. He was arrested in September last year and his indictment came nearly three weeks after Bangladesh executed fellow party leader Abdul Quader Mollah on identical charges. The two special tribunals so far charged over a dozen of people with war crimes, mostly leaders of Jamaat which was opposed to Bangladesh’s independence. Until now the tribunals delivered verdicts in nine cases handing down capital punishment to six but other than Mollah no one was executed as subsequent appeal before SC.
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