My father`s jail term `unjust`, says son Azmi

DHAKA, July 15: Terming the 90-year jail term for Ghulam Azam “unjust”, his son Abdullahil Aman Azmi still maintains that the charges are “false, fabricated and baseless”.

“The judgement has made us aggrieved. But we are not surprised at this,” Azmi, a former brigadier general in Bangladesh Army, told reporters after the verdict.

It is not proper justice, he said, adding that they would appeal with the higher court challenging the judgement.

“Those who failed to face successfully the challenges of my father’s political ideals 42 years ago are now holding his trial,” he said.

Asked about newspaper clippings which remain evidence of Azam’s involvement with wartime offences, Azmi claimed that his father was vocal against Pakistani force in 1971 which was not published in newspapers then.