DHAKA: Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been kept at coronary care unit (CCU) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

He is now serving 90-year imprisonment for war crimes committed during liberation war 1971.

The physical condition of Ghulam Azam, now 92, has deteriorated. He was unable to speak since Wednesday night. No blood pressure was found in his body, said BSMMU’s medicine department dean Dr Professor AM Abdullah on Thursday.

But physically, he is now very weak, he added.

On July 15 last year, International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Ghulam Azam to 90 years in prison for masterminding crimes against humanity, genocide and other offences during liberation war.

On January 11, 2012, he was arrested in the war crimes case, after the tribunal took charges against him into cognizance.

Later on January 5, 2012, the prosecution brought 62 specific charges against the former Jamaat chief.

On May 13, 2012, the tribunal indicted him on five charges of crimes against humanity for murdering and torturing of unarmed people, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide in 1971.

BDST: 1300 HRS, OCT 23, 2014