War crimes trial
Hannan quizzed at �Safe Home�
UNB
The investigation agency of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) interrogated Jatiya Party (Ershad) parliament member MA Hannan, from Mymensingh-7 constituency, at Safe Home yesterday in a case for his alleged crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, reports UNB.
Earlier, the JP lawmaker had been taken to the Safe Home, a house in the capitals Dhanmondi where the ICT investigation agency quizzes the accused, from Dhaka Central Jail in the morning. Sources at the investigation agency said the interrogation, which started at 10:00am as directed by the court, continued till 5pm. Earlier on October 1, police arrested MA Hannan from his Gulshan residence while his son Rafique Sajjad was picked up from an office in the same area.
A team of Gulshan Police Station arrested them following arrest warrants issued against them by the ICT-1.
On October 2, a Dhaka court sent MP Hannan and his son Rafique to jail when police produced them before it as the tribunal was closed on that day.
On May 19 last, Rahima Khatun, widow of martyr freedom fighter Abdur Rahman of Bailor Munshipara in Trishal upazila in Mymensingh, registered the case with the District Cognisance Court-1 against three people, including MA Hannan, 70, for their alleged involvement in crimes committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The case was filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court No. 1 of Mymensingh under Section 3 (2) of International Crimes Tribunals Act 1973. Later, magistrate Ahsan Habib sent the case to the ICT in Dhaka.
In the case statement, Rahima alleged that Hannan, the then secretary of Mymensingh Peace Committee, an anti-liberation organisation, and other local collaborators, including Fakruzzaman and Rabbani of the Pakistani army, held her husband at Bhangnamari Char in Gouripur upazila on August 9, 1971.
