Human rights in international law and Islamic law
November 17, 2008
Introduction: The title apparently shows the purpose and significance of the article. The object of the instant article is to make comparison between the Islamic Human Rights and International Human Rights with a view to distinguish between the moral and legal basis of both The Islamic Human Rights and International Human Rights.
Tarique may be freed Tuesday
September 2, 2008
Brigadier general Zakir Hasan, inspector general of prisons, has told bdnews24.com all necessary papers for executing the release of Tarique Rahman have reached his office.
“We are now only awaiting the remainder document only, which may be sent to us any time today (Tuesday). It is possible that Tarique Rahman will be released today provided the last bit of paper work is complete and it reaches us,” Gen Hasan said Tuesday morning.
The law-enforcement agencies arrested Tarique on March 8, 2007. He is currently under treatment in a prisons cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.
As many as 16 cases have been filed against Tarique, one case involving Daily Dinkal has been disposed of, while he got bail 12 on-trial cases. Authorities are yet to press charges in three other cases.
The High Court on August 25 granted him six months’ interim bail in a Tk 1 crore extortion case and on August 26, another four months’ bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.
Tarique got bail in five cases on August 27, of which three involved extortion charges, one on income tax dodge and another on illegally acquired assets.
On August 28, when the Supreme Court granted him bail in the case involving the suppression of Sabbir murder for which Tarique allegedly took huge sums of money, he got bails in all the 12 cases against him.
Officials and his lawyers then said his release was only a matter of time required for procedure.
Source: bdnews24
HC starts delivering judgement
August 19, 2008
The High Court on Monday started delivering the judgement of the death reference and appeals against the trial court’s verdict in the 1975 jail killing case.
The High Court bench of Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan will resume the delivery of the judgment today.
The same court on July 23, after a lapse of nearly four years, began hearing the death reference and appeals against the trial court’s verdict.
The Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge’s court on October 20, 2004 handed down the verdict, sentencing three persons to death and 12 to life-term imprisonment for the killing. All of the 15 convicts were former military personnel.
The carnage took place inside the Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of November 3, 1975, when four top leaders of Awami League were mercilessly killed. They were Syed Nazrul Islam, the acting president during the War of Liberation, Tajuddin Ahmed, the prime minister of the government-in-exile during the war, M Mansur Ali, the finance minister under him, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, the home affairs minister.
The killing, seen as a desperate act by usurpers, occurred 79 days after the assassination of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and his family including his four-year-old child and two daughters-in-law, on August 15, 1975. Only two members of his family, Sheikh Hasina and Rehana, survived because they were abroad.
The trial court sentenced three persons — Risaldar (retd) Muslemuddin, Dafadar (dismissed) Marfat Ali Shah and Dafadar (dismissed) Abul Hashem Mridha, all of whom are on the run — to walk the gallows.
Those whom the court sentenced to life-term imprisonment were Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farook Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major (retd) Bazlul Huda, Lt Col (dismissed) Khandakar Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (relieved) Shariful Haq Dalim, Lt Col (retd) SHMB Noor Chowdhury, Major (Retd) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Lt Col (retd) AM Rashed Chowdhury, Major (relieved) Ahmed Sharful Hossain, Captain (retd) Abdul Majed, Captain (relieved) Kismat Hashem, and Captain (relieved) Najmul Hossain Ansar.
Farook Rahman, Shahriar Rashid, Bazlul Huda and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed are in jail while the rest of the convicts are on the lam. Ten of the convicts in this case were earlier awarded the death penalty in the Bangabandhu Murder Case, now pending with the Supreme Court for appeal hearings.
Source: New Age
Hasina ordered to appear in court on Aug 20
August 12, 2008
Judge Golam Mortuza Mojumdar of Dhaka Divisional Special Judge’s Court gave the order Tuesday in his special courtroom set up in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban complex. The court concluded charge framing proceedings in the case on July 31.
Hasina, currently in the US seeking medical treatment, had been exempted from personal appearance in the case on June 9. On Aug 5, the government extended the temporary release period of the Awami League president for one month, after a plea by her husband, to Sept 6.
Public prosecutor ABM Sharfuddin Ahmed Mukul told bdnews24.com that the court ordered all accused to appear on Aug 20. Hasina’s lawyer advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun asked the court not to frame charges until his client returned home. “It is mandatory for the accused to be present in the court during charge-framing even if he/she is exempted from personal appearance,” he said.
But Sharfuddin said it was not mandatory to be present during charge-framing if one was exempted from court appearance. As the defendant’s lawyers participated in the charge-framing proceedings, charge-framing should go ahead without further delay, said the public prosecutor.
Another accused in the case, former army chief Mustafizur Rahman died on Aug 3, his lawyer SM Kamrul Hassan informed the court, and submitted the death certificate. The now defunct Anticorruption Bureau filed the case on Dec 11, 2001.
Seven people including Hasina were shown as accused in the case. It was alleged during Hasina’s tenure the state incurred losses worth about Tk 700 crore by purchasing eight MiG-29 combat jets. Other accused in the case are former air force chief retired Air Vice Marshal Jamaluddin Ahmed, former defence secretary Syed Yusuf Hossain, former defence joint secretary Mohammad Hossain Sherniabat, retired Air Commodore Mirza Akhtar Maruf and Unique Group boss Noor Ali.
Justice Habibur Rahman Khan made Truth Commission chief
July 31, 2008
Justice Habibur Rahman Khan has been appointed to the Truth and Accountability Commission as chairman, an official said Wednesday.
Retired major general Manzur Rashid Khan and former CAG Asif Ali have been appointed as members of the commission.
Md Sirajul Islam, secretary (public division) to the president, told bdnews24.com that a circular had been signed by Iajuddin Ahmed.
The cabinet approved the Right to Voluntary Disclosure Ordinance 2008, to create the commission, on May 25 and the president promulgated the ordinance on June 5. The cabinet proposed a number of amendments on July 6.
According to the ordinance, the truth commission will run for five months with three members.
According to the ordinance provision anybody already convicted of graft, with a sentence of two years or less, will get the scope of leniency if he confesses and returns any illegal earnings within a given timeframe.
But if anyone provides false and misleading information the commission will fine the person Tk 1 lakh or sentence him to six months in jail or the both.
But the people convicted of arms, drugs, child trafficking and rape cases will not get the clemency.
The government has appointed 26 officials and staffers on deputation for the commission and established its office on Minto Road.
Source: bdnews24
SC stays ruling on judges’ appointments
July 29, 2008
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a High Court order on the permanent appointment of ten judges, after a hearing on a government appeal.
The government had appealed against the High Court’s order to make permanent within one month the appointment of ten judges, who served as additional judges but were not confirmed during the BNP-led four-party alliance government.
A special HC bench had issued the ruling on July 17 on a writ petition filed by advocate Idrisur Rahman and Abdul Awal in 2003 against the BNP-led government’s decision.
The bench had ruled that the then government’s decision of not confirming the jobs of the ten judges, despite the then chief justice’s recommendations, was illegal and unconstitutional.
Abdus Salam, Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, Shamsul Huda, Faruque Ahmed, Marji Ul Haque, Abdur Razzak, Hasan Faiz Siddiqui, AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, Abdul Hye and Nizamul Haque Nasim were appointed to the High Court as additional judges during the Awami League regime.
But their jobs were not confirmed due to what they claimed were political reasons during the BNP-led party government.
Source: bdnews24