Abdul Alim, a former BNP Minister Awarded ‘imprisonment till death’ in Bangladesh Wed Oct 9,2013

A war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh on Wed Oct 9,2013 awarded Abdul Alim(83) a former BNP minister, ‘imprisonment till death’ for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971

Delivering the verdict, the chairman of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2, Justice Obaidul Hassan, said, “Abdul Alim deserves death. But, his poor health condition and disability to move are the reason that he has been sentenced to jail for the rest of his life”

Nine out of the 17 charges against Abdul Alim, the Muslim League-activist-turned lawmaker of the main opposition party BNP, were proved beyond doubt, pronounced the tribunal. Alim is the second BNP leader convicted for war crimes

Earlier on October 1, 2013 the International Crimes Tribunal-1 awarded death penalty to the party lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his wartime offences.