A High Court lawyer has filed a petition with the International Crimes Tribunal seeking a ruling as to why a show-cause notice should not be issued against British journalist David Bergman for making “derogatory” comments about the tribunal in a blog.
HC practitioner Abul Kalam Azad filed the petition with Arunabha Chakrabarty, deputy registrar of the second war crimes tribunal, late yesterday afternoon.
David Bergman has faced contempt of court charges at the tribunal before for similar offences he committed by publishing an op-ed in a Bangladeshi English daily.
In February 2012, after hearing the contempt charges, the tribunal warned him against repeating such offences.