Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman on Thursday challenged
the death penalty awarded him by a war crimes tribunal for his crimes
against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
Claiming himself
innocent, the assistant secretary general of Jamaat termed the verdict a
“wrong judgement” and appealed with Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court for his acquittal from all the five charges which were proved
before International Crimes Tribunal-2.
The tribunal on May 9 sentenced him to death as it found him guilty of committing crimes against humanity in 1971.
Kamaruzzaman’s
lawyers led by advocate Tajul Islam submitted a 105-page appeal along
with different other documents to the office concerned of the Appellate
Division.
In the appeal, the Jamaat leader said the tribunal
sentenced him to death on the basis of hearsay statements of the
prosecution witnesses.
The judgement is not tenable in the eye of law because it is wrong judgement, the appeal said.
Tajul Islam, the convict’s lawyer,that the SC will now fix a date for hearing on the appeal.
MK
Rahman, additional attorney general and also chief coordinator of the
prosecution team on Wednesday that the government
would not file any appeal challenging the acquittal order of the
tribunal in two other charges brought against Kamaruzzaman.
They will oppose Kamaruzzaman’s appeal before the SC, Rahman said.
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