Bergman's contempt of court verdict now on Dec 1

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 today rescheduled December 1 for passing an order on the contempt of court proceedings against David Bergman, a Dhaka-based British journalist, who is accused of demeaning the tribunal through his blogposts.
The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan deferred the date as it is yet to complete preparation to deliver the order.
The tribunal on September 4 fixed today for passing the order after completing the hearing arguments of lawyers of both the petitioner and the defendant.
“We have some personal difficulties. We are not ready to pass the order,” Justice Obaidul Hassan said today.
If found guilty, Bergman, the editor (special reports) of the English daily New Age, may face highest one year's imprisonment or up to Tk 5,000 in fine or both.
The tribunal started the proceedings on April 17 after it found “prima facie elements of contempt” in his three write-ups posted in his personal blog in November 2011 and January 2013, in which he allegedly questioned the figure of the liberation war martyrs.
Supreme Court lawyer Abul Kalam Azad filed the contempt petition on February 18, saying Bergman made “relentless efforts to justify that the tribunal was absolutely wrong in mentioning three million deaths and the number of 200,000 women raped in 1971”.
In his submission on August 25 and September 4, Bergman's counsel Mustafizur Rahman Khan, however, said the write-ups were “definitely critical” but fell under the parameters of permissible fair criticism and had been made “bona fide and in good faith”.