Ex-MP Fazle Karim, ex-army official Ziaul shown arrested in crimes against humanity case
The tribunal also granted permission to interrogate them for one day each.
The International Crimes Tribunal today (19 April) ordered that former Chattogram-6 MP ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury and Major General (retd) Ziaul Ahsan be shown arrested in a crimes against humanity case over the abduction, enforced disappearance, and killing of a former union parishad chairman.
The tribunal also granted permission to interrogate them for one day each.
The three-member bench of the tribunal-2, led by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, passed the order after the accused were produced before it with a plea for showing the duo arrested in the case, said Prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim.
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The tribunal also allowed the prosecution two months to submit the investigation report and set 21 June as the deadline.
According to the prosecution, Syed Abu Jafar, former chairman of Bagoan union parishad in Raozan upazila of Chattogram, was picked up in 2010 and later killed after being forcibly disappeared.
Following the political changeover in August 2024, the charges of crimes against humanity were brought against them before the tribunal.
Both accused have been in jail since their arrests in the respective cases.
