DHAKA, Bangladesh – A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader who was convicted of war crimes involving his country's 1971 independence war has died of a heart attack in a prison cell of a government ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday strongly criticised Jamaat-e-Islami, saying that if the party ...

A special Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced an elderly top Islamist to 90 years in prison for masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. Ghulam Azam, compared ...

As part of Victory Day celebrations, a group of Dhaka University students hurled shoes at a portrait of former Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam ameer Ghulam Azam in front of the Dhaka University Central ...

Dhaka, Sep 19 (bdnews24.com)—The investigators of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) claim to have collected 'sufficient' evidence of war crimes committed by Ghulam Azam, former chief of ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader, whose imprisonment on war crimes charges triggered violent protests last year, has died of a heart attack in a prison cell of a ...

A Bangladeshi war crimes court has sentenced the former chief of the radical Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami Party to a 90-year jail term for orchestrating crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 ...

Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam has been charged by a special tribunal with war crimes allegedly carried out during the country's 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Prosecutors ...