Witnesses in panic after Sayedee verdict
The witnesses of the war crimes case against convicted Delawar Hossain Sayedee fear for their lives now, after the sentence for the Jamaat-e-Islami leader was commuted to jail for life.
They expressed their dissatisfaction hours after the Supreme Court delivered the verdict and sought the government’s intervention for providing them with security.
“We were leading a life under security crisis,” Mahbubul Alam Howladar, the prime prosecution witness of the case, told The Daily Star today hours after the verdict.
“We, all the 10 witnesses, are living inside the Pirojpur Police Line in fear of attack by the Jamaat supporters. Is this life? For how many days shall we live like this?” Howladar said.
The chief witness said his days of living “in misery” would have been over if the Supreme Court upheld the death verdict. “We want the government’s intervention for our security.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the 10 witnesses to the war crimes case of Sayedee were moved to the Pirojpur Police Lines for security ahead of the verdict.
The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment till death for his crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
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