Counsels allowed to meet Ghulam Azam

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday allowed two of former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam's lawyers to meet him at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University's prison cell on February 4, 11 and 18.
Any two of Ghulam Azam's three counsels, Imran Siddique, Ehsan Siddique and Shishir Monir, will meet him between 10:00am and 1:00pm to discuss the case filed against him.
The tribunal's three-judge panel headed by its Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq passed the order after hearing Ghulam Azam's petition filed in this regard on Sunday.
The case documents should be handed over to the accused on February 4, it added.
Ghulam Azam, 89, charged with 62 counts of crimes against humanity, was arrested on January 11 and remains in the prison cell since then due to old age complications.
Meanwhile yesterday, the 21st prosecution witness of the case against Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee, Ejabuddin Miah, also Bangla Academy's assistant librarian, identified some newspaper copies published between 1970 and 1972.
These were seized by investigation officers from Ejabuddin's office in March and April of 2011 as documents in the case charging Sayedee with crimes against humanity.
The tribunal yesterday recorded the name of Syed Masumul Kabir, a distributor of Bangla Academy, as the 22nd prosecution witness of the case.