DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali has been taken to International Crimes Tribunal-2 at 9:25am Sunday.

The tribunal is set to pronounce verdict in the charges brought against Quasem Ali for his involvement in crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971.

Indicted on September 5, 2013, on 14 war crimes charges, each carrying superior responsibility, Mir Quasem Ali’s trial was completed on May 4, when the judges kept the verdict waiting.

The authorities stepped up security around the Old High Court Building, housing the two ICTs, in the capital.

Mir Quasem Ali, who was arrested on June 17, 2012, was the founding president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. 

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BDST: 0933 HRS, NOV 02, 2014