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War Trial Comments

Contempt plea filed against Mahbub

Staff Correspondent
The prosecution yesterday prayed to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to initiate contempt of court proceedings against BNP chairperson's adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain for his recent comments on the war crimes trial.
After hearing the prosecution's petition filed earlier on the day, the tribunal fixed Sunday for giving its decision on whether it would serve a show-cause notice on Mahbub, also vice-chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council.
On Tuesday, the tribunal awarded death penalty to BNP standing committee
FROM PAGE 20 member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
Following the verdict, Mahbub said that if voted to power, his party would try those involved in the trial.
The prosecution yesterday submitted copies of four dailies - the Prothom Alo, Janakantha, Bangladesh Pratidin and Kaier Kantho -- which published Mahbub's comments.
It said the Prothom Alo quoted Mahbub as saying, "If the nationalist force comes to power, they will try those who are war criminals in the real sense. Those who were tried out of ven-
geance and the cases which were prepared on the basis of fairytale must go. And those who were involved in the farcical trial, Inshallah | if Allah wishes], they will also be tried on the soil of Bangladesh."
Moving the petition, Prosecutor Zead Al Malum said Mahbub made the remarks at a press conference of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, an organisation of pro-BNP lawyers. These were intended to taint the tribunal and its trial process, and to undermine the confidence of people in the integrity of the tribunal.
He said the comments were made also to threaten the security of all the related parties including the chief
Justice, judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, the tribunal judges, members of both the defence and prosecution, officials of the tribunal registrar's office, investigators, witnesses, victims and journalists of the electronic and print media covering the trial.
"Such statements are bound to create doubts about all proceedings of the tribunal and smooth functioning of a free and fair judicial system," the prosecutor added.
Mahbub was one of the public prosecutors at a Special Tribunal that in the early 1970s conducted the trial of collaborators of the Pakistan army under the
Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunal) Order, 1972.
Forty years later, he became a lawyer for war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Delawar Hossain Sayedee and Abdul Quader Mollah.
Earlier on June 9, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced Jamaat lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad and acting secretary general of the party Rafiqul Islam Khan to three months' imprisonment and fined each of them Tk 3,000, as they were found guilty of contempt of court. They had made derogatory and provocative remarks about the tribunals and the ongoing trials.