Entertaining the prosecution’s time petition again, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday re-fixed on August 19 for the deposition of prosecution witness-16 against detained war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
The tribunal allowed the time plea as the prosecution failed to produce the PW-16 before it time and again.
Earlier, on August 1, responding to a prosecution prayer, the tribunal deferred to August 11 for the deposition of the PW-16.
Mir Iqbal Hossain appeared for the prosecution.
Jamaat chief Nizami is being tried on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
Also the president of Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1971, Nizami faces 16 counts of charges based on 16 separate incidents of crimes against humanity, in which at least 600 unarmed people were killed and 31 women raped during the Liberation War.
Source: UNBConnect