Crimes against humanity: Ex-IGP Mamun spared death penalty, gets 5yrs in jail after turning state witness
Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, who turned state witness after being named an accused, has been sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during last year's July Uprising.
A three-member panel of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-1), led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, announced the verdict in a case against Mamun, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today (17 November).
Mamun has been pardoned from a death sentence owing to his becoming a state witness.
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It appeared to the tribunal that he made a full disclosure of the circumstances within his knowledge relative to the crime, said the tribunal in the verdict observations.
Besides, the tribunal sentenced Hasina and Kamal to death in the same case.
