WAR CRIMES : Lawyers to meet Mojaheed today, Salauddin soon

Death row war crimes inmate Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s lawyers will meet their client at Dhaka Central Jail today while lawyers of another war crimes convict, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, will meet theirs soon to discuss the recently released apex court’s full verdicts against them and the grounds for seeking review of the judgements.
Defence lawyers representing both the convicts said this would be their first meeting with their clients since the Supreme Court released its full verdict upholding their clients’ death penalties on September 30.
Mojaheed’s defence lawyer Shishir Manir said a team of five lawyers were scheduled to meet their client, also the secretary general of Jamaat, on Saturday around 10:30am.
He said the four other lawyers are, Nazrul Islam, Moshiul Alam, Motiur Rahman Akand and Gazi MH Tamim.
Huzzataul Islam Alfesani, a defence lawyer for Salauddin, also a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, said his client was now in Kashimpur part-1 jail.
He said they will appeal on Saturday to the jail authorities to meet their client and expected that they would be able to meet Salauddin in two or three days. The lawyers will take note of instructions about moving a petition seeking review of the Apex Court verdict.
Earlier on October 1, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 issued warrants of execution of their death penalties to the jail authorities. The jail authorities, as per the jail code, read out the warrants as well as the operative parts of the Apex Court verdict to them.
On July 17, 2013, the ICT-2 sentenced Mojaheed to death finding him guilty of five war crimes charges including his complicity in killing intellectuals towards the fag end of the Liberation War.
On October 1, 2013, the ICT-1 sentenced Salauddin to death for committing genocide together with Pakistani occupation army where 57 people of Rawjan of Chittagong lost their lives in April, 1971.

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