A tribunal here will deliver its verdict tomorrow on Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
The alleged Al-Badr commander of Rangpur, Azharul, was indicted on six charges of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity for his wartime offences.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by its Chairman Justice Enayetur Rahim fixed tomorrow for delivering the verdict, reports the Daily Star.
The former president of Rangpur district unit Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, was charged with two acts of genocide that left more than 1,200 people dead.
The 61-year-old Jamaat assistant secretary general was also charged with torture, looting, arson, abduction, rape, mass killing and conspiracy to kill unarmed civilians in Rangpur.