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5 JMB men get 15 years in jail in Jamalpur
 [DhakaTribune] A Jamalpur court has sentenced five active members of the banned Death Eater outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen BangladeshThe JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) to 15 years in prison. Fifteen years? Got it. District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Zahirul Kabir passed the order on Wednesday.They were also slapped with a Tk15,000 fine each and would have to be in jail for 18 more months if they failed to pay it. The convicts are: Kari Saidur Rahman, 40, Akkas Ali, 38, Saidul Miah, 48, Md Rokonuzzaman, 31, and Azizul Haque, 50. All the Death Eaters, except Md Rokonuzzaman who is currently on the run, were present during the pronouncement of the verdict. Additional PP Advocate Mohammad Khwaja Alam confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune. According to case details, RAB 9 arrested the five faceless myrmidons on August 15, 2009, while they were preparing to carry out sabotage at Azizul Haque's house in Bandho Chithlia village of Jamalpur Sadar upazila. 2009 + 15 = 2024 Iron pipes, glass bottles and a large number of jihadi books were recovered at that time.Later, RAB DAD M Jahangir Alam filed a case against them. They were sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment following the testimony of nine people in the case. The case was heard on September 13 of the same year after the charge sheet was filed on August 27, 2009. Then on March 3, 2013, the case was sent to the Special Judge’s Court. ...after which, apparently nothing happened, and now they’re starting the fifteen year count as of the date sentence was passed. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-20 |
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