DHAKA: The International War Crimes Tribunal Wednesday asked Dhaka Central Jail authorities to produce Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Nayeb-e-Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, before it on August 10 when hearing on the war-crime cases against the detained top leaders of the party will resume.

The tribunal passed the order after the hearing of an arrest-warrant petition filed against Sayedee on charge of committing “crimes against humanity” during the Liberation War in 1971.

Tribunal prosecutor Syed Rezaur Rahman placed two specific allegations of war crimes against Sayedee when the court resumed Wednesday.

However, instead of issuing arrest warrant against Sayedee on the charges of war crime, the tribunal ordered the jail authorities to produce him before the court on the next date as he is already detained on other charges.

It also rejected a prayer submitted by Tajul Islam, a lawyer for the detained Jamaat leaders, for holding hearing on the three petitions the defense counsel filed with the court on August 2 when four other leaders were produced under arrest warrants against them.

They are Jamaat Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries-general Kamaruzzaman and Kader Mollah.      

The petitions were filed for withdrawal of the arrest warrants against the four top Jamaat leaders in cases of war crime as they are already detained in other cases, for supplying them the certified copies of the cases and allowing one of the lawyers to be appointed with “power of attorney” to stand for the accused.

The tribunal also fixed August 10 as the date for hearing the pending petitions.

BDST 1455 HRS August 04, 2010