In Bangladesh, a war crimes court has sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam to 90 years of imprisonment and found him guilty of five charges relating to Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in jail for conspiracy, incitement, planning, abetting and failing to prevent murder during the war by the The International Crimes Tribunal.Supporters of Bangladesh’s main Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, which he led from 1969 until 2000, clashed with police ahead of the verdict.He faced more than 60 counts of crimes against humanity for his role in setting up militia groups which carried out atrocities during the war. He denied the charges, which his supporters say were politically motivated.
