{"id":3162,"date":"2014-12-23T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2014-12-23T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:53:35","slug":"qaisar-to-die-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/qaisar-to-die-for-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Qaisar to die for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Jatiya Party State Minister Syed Mohammad Qaisar has been convicted on seven charges including mass killings and rape committed during the liberation war in 1971 and awarded capital punishment.<br \/>\nA three-member bench of ICT-2, headed by its Chairman Justice Obaidul Hasan, passed the verdict on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe 73-year-old Qaisar has also been awarded life term imprisonment on four charges while 10 years in charge no 2, seven years in charge no 7 and five years in charge no 11.<br \/>\nQaisar, a former state minister during HM Ershad\u2019s regime, was indicted on February 2 this year on 16 counts of charges that include mass killings, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, abduction and torture in confinement, rape and other inhuman acts.<br \/>\nThe trial in the case began on March 4 and 32 prosecution witnesses placed their depositions at the tribunal.<br \/>\nThe former state minister was arrested on May 16 last year, a day after the tribunal had issued an arrest warrant for him.<br \/>\nThe investigation agency submitted the report on September 22 last year and the prosecution placed the formal charges on November 20.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/qaisar-to-die-for-war-crimes\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jatiya Party State Minister Syed Mohammad Qaisar has been convicted on seven charges including mass killings and rape committed during the liberation war in 1971 and awarded capital punishment. A three-member bench of ICT-2, headed by its Chairman Justice Obaidul Hasan, passed the verdict on Tuesday. The 73-year-old Qaisar has also been awarded life &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}