Top Jamaat leaders are being tried for crimes during the war and four of them have been sentenced to death for murder, mass murder, rape and religious persecution.
Source/Credit: The News International
By AFP | August 1, 2013
DHAKA: Bangladesh's main Islamic party was banned from contesting next year's election when the high court ruled Thursday that Jamaat-e-Islami's charter breached the country's secular constitution.
"It is hereby declared illegal," said Moazzem Hossain, the chief judge hearing the case amid tight security outside the courthouse in Dhaka.
A lawyer for the Bangladeshi election commission, which oversees preparations for elections due next January, said the ruling meant Jamaat could not field candidates.
"As a party Jamaat's registration with the election commission is declared illegal, with the consequence that they cannot contest the election as a political party," Shahdeen Malik told.
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