Address of Hasan Jamil in the press conference arranged by the family of martyr Abdul Quader Molla in Supreme Court Bar Association Auditorium on Thursday, 11/12/2014, Dear fellow journalists, Assalamu Alaikum. I am here on behalf of my family, the family of martyr Abdul Quader Molla. You have responded to our invitation to attend this…
Sole witness in Molla death penalty case gave contradictory accounts
David Bergman The sole witness in the 1971 war crimes case where the Appellate Division ruled that Jamaat leader Quader Molla should receive the death penalty had given two previous accounts in which she did not mention Molla’s presence at the scene of her family’s murder. In one of the accounts, given in September 2007…
Killing Democracy or Killing Mollah?
A Deplorable Act by a Deplorable Government By Abdullah al-Ahsan, Professor of History and Civilization — Malaysia Prison authorities in Bangladesh have hurriedly carried out the execution of Abdul Qadir Mollah, an Assistant Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI), following an equally swiftly conducted hearing by a full bench of the appellate division of the Supreme Court which…
Abdul Quader Mollah War Criminal or Martyr?
By M S KHAN The Economist on December 13, 2013 reported: “The evidence on which the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) convicted Mr Mollah was flimsy. The charge for which he [was] hanged, of killing six members of one family, was based on the testimony of a single witness, who was 13 at the time…
Hasan Moudud on the Execution of His Father Abdul Quader Mollah
By Hasan Moudud The extent of suffering of our family members over the three and half years during which my father Abdul Quader Mollah was behind the bars is indescribable. Even though all our family members have enormous mental strength, all of us are now completely devastated. That was not the first time that my…
“Mollah through his hanging has become an innocent martyr judicially murdered for political reasons”
By Muhammad Ahmedullah We are approaching three months since Kader Mollah was judicially murdered in Bangladesh by the government. Until the war crimes trial process, which started a few years ago, I did not even know who K Mollah was and only knew the names of a handful of Jamaatists, including Golam Azam, Nizami, Mojahid, Saydee,…
Abdul Quader Mollah’s Hanging: A Blot on Hasina Wajed’s Regime
29 December, 2013 SYYED MANSOOR AGHA takes stock of the entire saga of the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah and hopes that he will be better placed in the eternal life. If a ‘rebellion’ succeeds, it becomes ‘revolution’ and ‘rebels’ are called ‘heroes of the revolution’. And, if a struggle to ‘secede’ succeeds, it is…
The Execution of Abdul Quader Mollah: A Judicial Murder
29 Dember, 2013 Shaheed Abdul Quader Mollah has become a name uttered with reverence in thousands of households throughout the world today. What started as a saga of domestic trials with a promise to deliver justice for crimes committed four decades ago turned into a chapter of full blown kangaroo trials that seemed geared towards…
A travesty of justice in Bangladesh
September 20, 2013 [Note: This article was written after initial verdict against Mollah was given and hence does not include events from after the appeal process] It was a feat unprecedented in the history of the judiciary in Bangladesh that a prisoner sentenced to death during an appeal to the highest court was then stripped…