War crimes convict's son detained in Bangladesh: Family

The son of a top Bangladeshi war crimes convict was blindfolded and picked up by security officials from his residence here, his family claimed today, amid an intensified vigil ahead of a Supreme Court verdict on the fate of another war crimes accused.
Abdullahil Aman Azmi, son of war criminal and ex-Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Ghulam Azam, was blindfolded and picked up by some plainclothes men without an arrest warrant from his Boro Moghbazar residence in the capital last night, his family members were quoted as saying by local media.
Police, however, said they had no idea whether any other security agency had picked him up.

"We know nothing about the incident," officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station Mashiure Rahman told reporters.
Azmi is the elder son of Ghulam Azam, the former head of Jamaat-e-Islami, who died two years ago in prison. He was handed "imprisonment until death" for committing crimes against humanity siding with the Pakistani troops in 1971.
Jamaat was opposed to Bangladesh's 1971 independence from Pakistan while most of its top leaders were tried for committing crimes against humanity in 1971.

A former brigadier general of army, Azmi was sent on forced retirement as the incumbent government assumed office after the landmark 2008 general elections and initiated the trial of major perpetrators of 1971 war crimes.

The development came as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is expected to dispose a review petition of death-row convict and Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali, whose death penalty was upheld earlier by the apex court itself.
Unidentified plainclothes men had earlier this month picked Ahmed Bin Quasem, son of top Jamaat leader and convicted war criminal Mir Quasem Ali.
Police also arrested executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury's son Hummam Quader Chowdhury from a court compound in the city on August 4.