Jamaat-e-Islami

SC may hear Nizami’s appeal 5 days more

The Supreme Court may have five more dates left to hear the appeal of Motiur Rahman Nizami challenging his death penalty for war crimes.
25 November 2015, 07:52 AM

No existence of IS in country: Home boss

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan reiterates there is no organisational existence of terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh.
24 November 2015, 13:02 PM

Another step towards justice

One of Bangladesh's many tragedies was the near reversal, within three and a half years of our birth as a country, of the gains of our Liberation War and the coming to power, later, of people who not only opposed the birth of Bangladesh but actively participated in the genocide and crimes against humanity that was the hallmark of the Pakistani forces and their Bengali collaborators.
22 November 2015, 18:00 PM

BGB deployed in Dhaka ahead of Jamaat hartal

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are deployed in Dhaka this evening ahead of tomorrow’s hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.
22 November 2015, 12:28 PM

Nizami’s appeal hearing may end by Dec 15: AG

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses hopes that the Supreme Court hearing on the appeal of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty will be completed by Dec 15.
22 November 2015, 08:42 AM

SQ Chy, Mojaheed signed mercy petitions: Anisul

A day into the execution of war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, the law minister today reiterated that the two sought presidential clemency, which was contradicted yesterday by their families and lawyers.
22 November 2015, 07:52 AM

Mojaheed, SQ Chy buried

Top war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have been buried after execution at the gallows of Dhaka jail.
22 November 2015, 04:05 AM

Jamaat calls hartal for Monday

Protesting execution of its leader Mojaheed for war crimes Jamaat-e-Islami calls countrywide hartal for Monday
21 November 2015, 20:10 PM

Mojaheed’s mercy seeking report ‘untrue’: Jamaat

Jamaat-e-Islami has claimed that information on its leader and death row war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s applying for presidential clemency is “absolutely untrue”.
21 November 2015, 12:06 PM

President rejects mercy petitions of Mojaheed, SQ Chy

Death row Mojaheed and SQ Chowdhury sought clemency from the president days after the Supreme Court rejected their petitions to review their decision upholding death penalty awarded to them by a special tribunal.
21 November 2015, 05:47 AM

Jamaat calls nationwide protest tomorrow

Jamaat-e-Islami will stage a countrywide “peaceful” protest tomorrow demanding the release of its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, a death row war criminal.
20 November 2015, 15:12 PM

Decision over ban on Jamaat likely by March: Hanif

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif hopes that the decision over banning Jamaat-e-Islami will be finalised by March next year.
19 November 2015, 10:51 AM

Families meet Mojaheed, SQ Chy at Dhaka jail

Death row war crimes convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed met their families at Dhaka jail. The meetings took place a day after the Supreme Court turned down their pleas for review against death penalty for war crimes during 1971 Liberation War.
19 November 2015, 08:03 AM

War trial: SC full verdict on Mojaheed, SQ Chy at central jail

The full verdict of Supreme Court on death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury reaches the Dhaka central jail.
19 November 2015, 05:45 AM

[WATCH NOW] Mojaheed: Fall of a war criminal

Al-Badr leader Mojaheed, who publicly insisted that there was no anti-liberation war element in the country, sees his plea to review his death penalty for war crimes turned down.
18 November 2015, 11:35 AM

Justice denied, says Mojaheed's son

Expressing disappointment over today’s Supreme Court verdict, son of war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed said his family has been deprived of justice.
18 November 2015, 08:47 AM

Jamaat calls hartal for Thursday

Jamaat-e-Islami calls a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) for tomorrow protesting Supreme Court’s rejection of party secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s plea to review its ruling upholding his death penalty for war crimes.
18 November 2015, 08:39 AM

Like father, like son

War crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed followed in his father Maulana Abdul Ali’s footsteps all along.
18 November 2015, 07:15 AM

Security beefed up at chief justice’s village home

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s village home in Moulvibazar is put under beefed up security since this morning ahead of two war trial verdicts.
18 November 2015, 05:22 AM

Mojaheed, SQ Chy to hang for war crimes as SC upholds ICT verdict

Supreme Court maintains its previous ruling upholding death penalties for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami's Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 War of Independence.
18 November 2015, 04:23 AM