Ghulam Azam moved to CCU

Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam was shifted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University after he complained of respiratory complications yesterday.
Azam, serving a 90-year jail sentence for war crimes committed during the Liberation War, has been kept at the prison cell of the same hospital since January 11, 2012, the day he was arrested.
He was taken to the CCU around 10:30am, BSMMU Director (Hospital) Brig Gen (retd) Abdul Majid Bhuiyan told The Daily Star.
“Though he is now under the observation of doctors, his physical condition is stable,” he said.
A seven-member medical team has been formed since symptom of pneumonia was detected in his left lung and the board will examine the 92-year-old this morning, Majid added.
Ghulam Azam's son Abdullahil Aman Azmi, who was with his father, told The Daily Star around 6:30pm yesterday that the condition of his father was better than what it was in the morning.
On July 15 last year, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Azam to 90 years in prison for masterminding crimes against humanity, genocide and other wartime offences in 1971. The court said Azam deserved the gallows but he was given prison terms due to his old age.
Both the government and the convict challenged the tribunal verdict, which is now pending before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
Convicted war criminal Abdul Alim died of cancer at the BSMMU on Saturday. He too was kept at the BSMMU prison cell since his conviction on October 9 last year. Alim was buried at his family graveyard in Joypurhat on Monday.