Left student organisations on Sunday condemned recent attacks on and threats to left student leaders and activists during demonstrations in Rajshahi and Chattogram rejecting the Supreme Court鈥檚 May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges...
Protests rejecting the Supreme Court鈥檚 May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges and against the recent attacks on left student leaders and activists in Rajshahi and Chattogram continued in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country for the fifth day on Saturday...
THE problem with writing about Gaza is that words can鈥檛 explain what鈥檚 happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror...
Left student leaders and activists continued their protests for the fourth day on Friday rejecting the Supreme Court鈥檚 May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges.
Protests erupted in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country condemning acquittal of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former alleged Al-Badr commander ATM Azharul Islam who was charged with war crimes...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who had been on death row for war crimes, was released from custody on Wednesday morning鈥攋ust a day after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court overturned his conviction for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence in 1971...
Several left-leaning student organisations, including Bangladesh Students鈥� Union, on Tuesday staged a protest rally protesting at the acquittal of Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former alleged Al-Badr commander ATM Azharul Islam who was charged with war crimes...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned its previous verdict that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh...
THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
Information adviser Mahfuj Alam has called for a political reckoning over the legacy of the 1971 Liberation War, demanding a formal聽 apology from the war crimes collaborators and said that the pro-Awami League left-leaning parties must not go unpunished.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday set May 27 for delivering its verdict on the review petition filed by condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam challenging his death sentence.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned until May 8 the hearing on a petition filed by condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam seeking a review of the court鈥檚 earlier decision upholding his death sentence...
Trials and investigations of the cases related to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the liberation war in 1971 remain stalled in the International Crimes Tribunal after the political changeover on August 5, 2024 when the...
Eight survivors of the devastating conflict in Ethiopia鈥檚 northern Tigray region have accused 12 high-ranking Ethiopian and Eritrean civilian and military officials of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the legal rights group representing them said on Monday.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to reopen the appeal of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War...
The chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal, Golam Mortuza Mozumder, has urged tribunal employees and officers to familiarise themselves with the laws, rules, and procedures governing war crimes trials, emphasising that the public expects them to be knowledgeable in these matters.
Investigations into and trials of 1971 war crimes cases pending with the International Crimes Tribunal have come to a standstill while cases filed on charges of crime against humanity during the July-August...
THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh鈥檚 socio-political history. The two protests, distinct in origins and goals though, explain interwoven paths of public mobilisation, collective memory and the exercise of state power. The Shahbagh movement emerged from a nation鈥檚 quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a 鈥榙eath sentence鈥�...
IT鈥橲 official now. America鈥檚 closest ally, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in Congress just months ago, is under indictment by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes. America must take note: the US government is complicit in Netanyahu鈥檚 war crimes and...
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel鈥檚 repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the 鈥榳ar crime of forcible transfer鈥�, and to 鈥榚thnic cleansing鈥� in parts of the Palestinian territory...
Nepal鈥檚 parliament approved on Wednesday long-delayed amendments to the transitional justice act aimed at addressing war crimes committed during the country鈥檚...
Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury, the widow of martyred physician and freedom fighter Alim Chowdhury, filed a contempt petition with the Appellate Division on Wednesday seeking action against lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising the judiciary of Bangladesh by holding a talk-show...
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has allowed Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Bangladeshi condemned war crimes convict living in London for decades, to revive his...
Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:..
In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity, and emboldened by US unconditional military and diplomatic support..
THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel鈥檚 war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, 鈥榓bsurd and false鈥� and a 鈥榙istortion of reality.鈥�...
Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges in the Palestinian territory...
The highest-ranking Syrian military official to be tried in Europe will appear in a Stockholm court on Monday for his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 during civil war in Syria.聽...