From New Age
National Human Rights Commission chairman Mizanur Rahmman said on Monday that there was no scope to create confusion over the definition of the crimes being dealt by the International Crimes Tribunal.
Speaking at a roundtable in the city he said that the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973 had unambiguously defined the crimes that would come under its mischief.
He said that the 1973 law describes genocide, rape and other crimes as crimes against humanity and peace just as the international law states.
He said that Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal was dealing with the offences committed particularly during the 1971 Liberation War.
He said that the tribunal did not provide new definitions of these crimes.
Mizan said that the tribunal was only dealing with the internationally recognised crimes.
Liberation War Museum hosted the roundtable on ‘Non-retroactivity of International Crimes Tribunal and Defining the Crimes Against Humanity.’
Mizan said that he would expect that the 1973 law and the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh would set an international example of prosecuting the war crimes accused.
At the roundtable inauguration earlier in the morning, law minister Shafique Ahmed said
that the government set up the International Crimes Tribunal to ensure justice to the people who
suffered during the Liberation War.
He said that the tribunal was not politically harassing anyone.
California University professor Laurence Fletcher, Sara Hossain of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, International Crimes Tribunal registrar Shahinur Islam and LWM trustee Mufidul Haque spoke, among others.
Bangladesh non-govt pry teachers continue work abstention
From New Age
Non-government registered primary teachers kept their schools under lock and key for the second consecutive day on Monday, demanding pay hike and nationalisation of their jobs.
Teachers and students said no classes were taken on the day.
‘Teachers across the country locked up schools on Monday. No classes took place,’ Abdur Rahman, member secretary of the National Non-Government Primary Teachers United Alliance, told New Age.
‘We will continue our movement. We will also abstain from work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,’ he added.
He also said they would submit a memorandum to all MPs between January 20 and February 20 and to the speaker on March 14.
They will also hold a march towards the Prime Minister’s Office on April 10.
Non-government registered primary teachers kept their schools under lock and key for the second consecutive day on Monday, demanding pay hike and nationalisation of their jobs.
Teachers and students said no classes were taken on the day.
‘Teachers across the country locked up schools on Monday. No classes took place,’ Abdur Rahman, member secretary of the National Non-Government Primary Teachers United Alliance, told New Age.
‘We will continue our movement. We will also abstain from work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,’ he added.
He also said they would submit a memorandum to all MPs between January 20 and February 20 and to the speaker on March 14.
They will also hold a march towards the Prime Minister’s Office on April 10.
Limon’s charge hearing deferred
From New Age
A Jhalakati court on Monday deferred till March 27 the hearing on the charge framing against college student Limon Hossain in a case filed on charge of obstructing RAB from discharging their duties.
Nusrat Jahan, judge of Jhalakati Senior Judicial Magistrate’s court, passed the order as the police failed to complete investigation into the case even after 10 months of the incident.
Limon appeared before the court in the morning to face the allegation.
On March 23, a RAB team reportedly shot Limon in the left leg after taking him to a place adjacent to his house at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur upazila in Jhalakati.
The leg had to be amputated later.
RAB on the same day filed two cases — one under arms act and another for obstructing RAB personnel from discharging their duties — against the teenager Limon and seven others.
On April 24, sub-inspector Arifur Rahman, the investigation officer of the two cases, submitted charge sheets against the accused in the arms case.
A Jhalakati court on Monday deferred till March 27 the hearing on the charge framing against college student Limon Hossain in a case filed on charge of obstructing RAB from discharging their duties.
Nusrat Jahan, judge of Jhalakati Senior Judicial Magistrate’s court, passed the order as the police failed to complete investigation into the case even after 10 months of the incident.
Limon appeared before the court in the morning to face the allegation.
On March 23, a RAB team reportedly shot Limon in the left leg after taking him to a place adjacent to his house at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur upazila in Jhalakati.
The leg had to be amputated later.
RAB on the same day filed two cases — one under arms act and another for obstructing RAB personnel from discharging their duties — against the teenager Limon and seven others.
On April 24, sub-inspector Arifur Rahman, the investigation officer of the two cases, submitted charge sheets against the accused in the arms case.
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