The charges against former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam included involvement in murder and torture of unarmed people, as well as conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The charges were based on 61 incidents of crimes against humanity.
He was charged for five counts of conspiracy, three counts of planning, 28 counts of incitement, 22 counts of complicity and one count of murder and torture.
Ghulam was charged with crimes against humanity for killing 38 people, including the Mohammadpur police station’s then second officer sub-inspector Shiru Miah, his son Anwar Kamal, also a schoolboy, and Dhaka University Bangla department student Nazrul Islam, who had been detained by Razakars on October 27, 1971. They had been travelling to India for shelter, and were killed by Razakars at Ghulam's instruction in Kairatala village, Kasba upazila, Brahmanbaria on November 21, 1971.
The International Crimes Tribunal charged Ghulam Azam with conspiracy for holding meetings with: martial law administrator Tikka Khan at the then Governor’s House, now Bangabhaban, on April 4, 1971, along with 11 other anti-liberation politicians and on April 6; anti-liberation leaders on April 14, 1971; the then president Aga Mohammad Yahya Khan in Rawalpindi on June 19, 1971; and with Maulana Abul Ala Moududi on June 20 in Lahore.
The thrust of the charges was based on Ghulam Azam’s superior status as the Jamaat chief in 1971, and his influence over his party men.
