Abdus Subhan,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,Abdus Subhan committed the atrocities at different parts of his
northwestern home district in Pabna from April 17 to October 30, 1971.
“The
charges are framed,” International Crimes Tribunal chairman Justice ATM
Fazle Kabir said, indicting Abdus Subhan of nine counts as he appeared on the
dock and set January 28 as the date of hearing.
Abdus Subhan, however, pleaded “not guilty”.
Abdus Subhan 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.
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