June 17
BANGLADESH:
Hearing on SQ Chy's appeal adjourned till Sunday
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing until Sunday on the appeal
filed by condemned convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury challenging the death
penalty handed down to him for his war crimes.
The 4-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar
Sinha, passed the order after hearing the appeal for the 2nd day. The court
began the hearing on Tuesday.
The other judges of the bench are Justice Najmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed
Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.
ASM Shahjahan who stood for the BNP leader said charges brought against
Salauddin Chowdhury by the state are being read out to the court.
"The 3rd charge was read out on Wednesday."
On October 1, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 found the BNP leader
guilty of crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation and condemned
him to death.
On October 29 of the same year, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury filed an appeal with
the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the ICT verdict.
The tribunal indicted Salauddin Quader for his involvement in crimes against
humanity on 23 counts under different provisions of section 3 (2) of the
International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.
The tribunal found Salauddin Quader, the son of Pakistan Convention Muslim
League president Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, guilty of the crimes of genocide at
Rauzan and murder of minority Hindu community members, including Nutan Chandra
Singh, the founder of Kundeshwari Owsadhalay of Gohira, Awami League leaders
and supporters of Bangladesh's war of independence.
The tribunal also found him guilty of the charge of torture on the accused
carried out on captives at his ancestral house 'Good Hills' in the port city of
Chittagong during the 1971 Liberation War.
(source: Prothom Alo)
INDONESIA:
Prosecutors demand death for drug-smuggling Lithuanian
A state prosecutor in North Sumatra has demanded the death penalty for
Lithuanian citizen Mindaugas Verikas, who was caught in possession of 3.2
kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.
Prosecutor Nova on Wednesday asked the panel of judges at the Medan District
Court to sentence the defendant to death, as the drugs confiscated from him
exceeded the 5-gram threshold for the death penalty as stipulated in Chapter
114 of the 2009 Narcotics Law.
Responding to the prosecution, Indra Cahya, presiding over the panel of judges,
asked the team of state prosecutors to separate the defendant from other
detainees at Tanjung Gusta Prison in the city.
"Since the defendant could face the death penalty, he should be separated from
other inmates in the prison," he said.
Mindaugas was arrested attempting to bring in the illegal drugs to Indonesia
through Kuala Namu International Airport on Dec. 14 last year.
(source: Jakarta Post)
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