Gallows for Subhan

A tribunal in Dhaka today handed death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan on three charges for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The 79-year-old Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer was also sentenced to imprisonment until death on two charges and five years’ imprisonment for another.
That means the court found him guilty on six out of nine charges.
While delivering the verdict, Justice Obaidul Hassan, chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal 2, said Subhan is now at an advanced age but it cannot be considered as a mitigating factor to reduce the punishment since his gravity of offences was extreme.
Apart from this, the crimes were committed in 1971 when he was young, the justice said.