| Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee Hang news in every world news paper link. Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:43 AM PST TIME - 9 hours ago Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was found guilty of eight counts out of 20 involving mass killings, rape and atrocities during the nine-month war against Pakistan, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said. The verdict was announced by presiding ... News Tribe - 1 hour ago At least 17 of them were shot in clashes between police and protesters that erupted after Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the Jamaat-e-Islami party's vice president, was found guilty of war crimes, including murder, arson and rape. He is the third person to be ... Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 73, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty by Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal of mass killing, rape, arson, looting and forcing minority Hindus to convert to Islam during the 1971 war of separation from Pakistan ...  The Hindu - 3 hours ago 21 killed in clashes after war crimes tribunal verdict. A war-crimes tribunal on Thursday handed down the death penalty to top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's liberation war in 1971. Bloomberg - 6 hours ago A panel of judges found Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee guilty of committing crimes against humanity during Bangladesh's independence struggle in 1971, Syed Haider Ali, a prosecutor, said in comments on live television. The tribunal's first ... Voice of America - 6 hours ago The court in Dhaka Thursday handed down the sentence to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a senior member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, for atrocities including rape and mass killings. Sayedee's lawyer has called the verdict unjust and vowed to appeal.... 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| Aljazeera, Bangladesh Jamaat leader sentenced to death Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:08 AM PST Fresh violence erupts following conviction of Delwar Hossain Sayedee over atrocities during 1971 liberation war.
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal has sentenced a leader of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party to death, the
third verdict by the court set up to investigate abuses during the country's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 73, vice-president of the party, was found guilty of charges of mass killing, rape, arson, looting and religious persecution during the liberation war, lawyers and tribunal officials said on Thursday.
"The verdict has appropriately demonstrated justice. We are happy," state prosecutor Haider Ali told reporters.
Lawyers for the defendant boycotted the tribunal during the verdict.
"I didn't commit any crime and the judges are not giving the verdict from the core of their heart," Sayedee told the court.
"I didn't commit any crime and the judges are not giving the verdict from the core of their heart."
- Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Convicted Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Comments from Sayedee's lawyers were not immediately available, but he had previously denied the allegations and said the charges were politically motivated.
The vedict triggered a fresh round of violence across the country, and Reuters news agency reported that at least 15 people were killed in protests by Sayedee's supporters.
Another 200 people were wounded as his supporters clashed with police in more than a dozen districts across the country.
But thousands of people in the capital, Dhaka's Shahbag square, who support the tribunal and have been protesting for weeks to demand the "highest penalty" for war criminals, burst into cheers as the verdict was announced.
Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party, has denounced the trial and called for a day-long countrywide strike in anticipation of the verdict against Sayedee.
Earlier this month, the war tribunal sentenced Abdul Quader Molla, Jamaat's assistant secretary general, to life imprisonment, leading to deadly protests by Islamists that left 16 people dead.
The verdict also enraged secular protesters, tens of thousands of whom have since poured onto a central Dhaka intersection to reject the "lighter sentence" and demand the execution of Jamaat leaders.
Last month, another Jamaat leader Maolana Abul Kalam Azad was sentenced to death in absentia. Seven other top leaders of Jamaat are on trial for their alleged role in the atrocities during the war.
Tight security
Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, was tense ahead of the verdict.
About 10,000 policemen were on patrol and the government also deployed border guards as reinforcement to prevent violence.
Schools and shops were shut and roads in Dhaka and inter-city motorways were empty.
The tribunal, a domestic body with no international oversight, has been tainted by controversies and allegations it is targeting only the opposition.
But the scale of recent secular protests show a large section of Bangladeshis support moves to punish those linked to atrocities during 1971.
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, set up the tribunal in 2010 to investigate abuses during the independence war that claimed about 3 million lives and, according to the government, during which thousands of women were raped.
The tribunal has been criticised by rights groups for failing to adhere to international standards of due process. |
| Australia, DailyTelegraph, Aus At least 21 killed in Bangladesh after Islamist hanging verdict Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:50 AM PST 
A WAVE of violence killed at least 21 people in Bangladesh overnight as Islamists reacted to a ruling to hang one of its leaders for war crimes.
At least 17 of the dead were shot in clashes between police and protesters that erupted after Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the Jamaat-e-Islami party's vice president, was found guilty of war crimes, including murder, arson and rape.
He is the third person to be convicted by the much-criticised domestic tribunal whose previous verdicts have also been met with outrage from Islamists who say the process is more about score settling than delivering justice.
The latest clashes brought the overall death toll to 37 since the first verdict was delivered on January 21.
Also among the dead were two policemen who were beaten to death after thousands of Jamaat supporters attacked a base in the northern district of Gaibandha, local police chief Monjur Rahman said.
"At least 10,000 Jamaat supporters attacked us with weapons. We were forced to open fire," Mr Rahman said, adding two protesters were shot dead.
Seventeen other people were also killed as violence spread all over the country, police said.
About 300 people including scores of policemen were also injured, doctors and police and local media said.
Police also reported attacks on several Hindu homes and temples by Islamists in the southern Noakhali district.
Security forces had been braced for trouble ahead of the verdict against Sayedee, who reacted to the judgment by saying it had been influenced by "atheists" and pro-government protesters who have been demanding his execution.
Sayedee, best known in Bangladesh these days as a firebrand preacher, was convicted for setting ablaze 25 houses in a Hindu village and abetting the murders of two people including Hindu man, according to a copy of the verdict.
He led a pro-Pakistani militia who abducted three Hindu sisters and raped them for three days at a Pakistani camp. He also forced at least 100 Hindus to convert to Islam and made them say Islamic prayers.
His lawyer Tajul Islam described the verdict as "a gross miscarriage of justice", adding that Sayedee did not live in the town where the alleged crimes took place.
"It's a case of mistaken identity. We're stunned," he said.
However protesters at a central Dhaka intersection erupted in jubilation as news of Sayedee's sentence filtered through. "We've been waiting for this day for the last four decades," a protester told Somoy TV.
There was no immediate reaction from Jamaat to the verdict, but the party has enforced a nationwide strike demanding a halt to the trials. The cases against eight more Jamaat leaders are still being heard.
Earlier this month the tribunal, a local court with no international oversight, sentenced Jamaat's assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla to life imprisonment.
While angering Jamaat supporters, that verdict also enraged secular protesters, tens of thousands of whom have since poured onto the Shahbag intersection in central Dhaka to demand the execution of Jamaat leaders.
In January the tribunal handed down its first verdict when it sentenced fugitive Muslim TV preacher Maolana Abul Kalam Azad to death.
The tribunal has been tainted by controversies and allegations it is targeting only the opposition with trumped-up charges. Rights groups say its legal procedures fall short of international standards.
The government rejects the accusations, saying the trials are needed to heal the wounds of the war that it says killed three million people.
It accuses Jamaat leaders of being part of pro-Pakistani militias blamed for much of the 1971 carnage.
The government says three million were killed but independent estimates put the figure much lower, between 300,000 and 500,000. |
| Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to death in war crimes trial Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:13 AM PST A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was today sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity", including genocide and religious persecution, during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
A special Bangladeshi tribunal handed down death penalty to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the party, amid a nationwide shutdown called by Jammat.
"He (Delwar Hossain Sayedee) will be hanged by neck till he is dead," pronounced chairman of the three-judge International Crimes Tribunal Justice ATM Fazle Kabir.
He is the third JI politician to be convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal since the trial of war crimes suspects, mostly belonging to the Islamist group, began three years ago.
The 120-page verdict said the tribunal found valid eight of the 20 charges against the Islamist leader which included mass killing, arson, lootings and forcefully converting non-Muslims to Islam of which two of the charges earned him the highest death sentence.
The verdict came as a security blanket covered the capital Dhaka and other major cities after JI called a nationwide shutdown coinciding with the date of the judgement while thousands of youngsters enforced a street vigil demanding the capital punishment for the war criminals.
Sayedee, the Nayeb-e-Amir of JI, was arrested on June 29, 2010 and was indicted on October 3, for 20 charges of crimes against humanity including looting, killing, arson, rape and forcefully converting non-Muslims to Islam.
A total of 27 witnesses testified against him during the trial while Sayeedi's counsels brought 17 people to speak to defend their client.
The authorities earlier called out paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in aide of police and elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to enforce a stringent security vigil.
Offices and businesses were open defying the stoppage call while transport owners association earlier said they would operate the public transports despite the hartal call.
Witnesses said JI activists tried to make their presence on the street, exploding homemade bombs and staging street marches at different parts of the capital. Police chased them with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters and detained several of them from the spots.
"Police arrested 10 troublemakers from the spot after chasing them," a police official told PTI.
The suspected JI activists damaged nine vehicles and torched another one in pre-strike violence last night apparently to frighten people to enforce their stoppage. Iimesofindia http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/18728377.cms |
| Bangladesh on the boil after Islamist leader sentenced to death, 32 killed Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:10 AM PST Bangladesh was on the boil on Thursday as at least 32 people, including three policemen, were killed and scores injured in violence after a top leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war.
The violence followed the verdict of the special Bangladeshi tribunal that handed down death penalty to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the party, amid a nationwide shutdown called by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI).
"He (Delwar Hossain Sayedee) will be hanged by neck till he is dead," pronounced chairman of the three-judge International Crimes Tribunal Justice A T M Fazle Kabir.
The court verdict triggered street violence across the country leaving at least 32 people dead, authorities said.
The victims included the cops, activists of Jamaat, Shibir, Juba League and common people.
Of the deceased, six people, including three cops, were killed in Gaibandha, four in Thakurgaon, three in Satkhira, two each in Rangpur, Noakhali, Chittagong, Moulvibazar and Sirajganj while one each in Dinajpur, Natore, Cox's Bazar and Chapainawabganj.
Five deaths were also reported from other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, JI has called a 48-hour nationwide hartal from Sunday protesting death penalty for Sayedee.
Amiruzzaman, Jamaat chief of Chittagong (North) said the party would organise special prayers tomorrow and stage protest rallies on Saturday across the country.
Sayedee is the third JI politician to be convicted by the Tribunal since the trial of war crimes suspects, mostly belonging to the Islamist group, began three years ago.
In the first verdict in January, former Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad was sentenced to death on similar charges.
Another Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah was sentenced to life in February for atrocities during the war.
Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamic party in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, was opposed to the 1971 liberation war when officially 3 million people were killed and 200,000 women were raped.
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