The 2012 ICT Skype controversy was the leaking of Skype conversations and emails between Mohammed Nizamul Huq, head judge and chairman of Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal, and Ahmed Ziauddin, a Bangladeshi lawyer based in Brussels.[1] These conversations took place during the prosecution of the accused for alleged war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
According to The Economist, the recordings and emails suggested that the Bangladesh Government pressured and attempted to intervene in the International Crimes Tribunal to speed up proceedings. The neutrality and independence of Huq was called into question, as Ziauddin appeared to help him to prepare documents for the tribunal and made detailed recommendations for Huq. Ziauddin also advised prosecutors, including the chief prosecutor Zaed-al-Malum, and informed Huq about how the prosecutors may develop their cases. This resulted in a connection between the judge, adviser and the prosecution.[1]
The 17 hours of conversations between 28 August and 20 October 2012 and more than 230 e-mails between September 2011 and September 2012 were disclosed to The Economist.[1] The Bangladeshi newspaper Amar Desh also received the conversations, and published a report on 9 December, followed by the transcripts in full. On 13 December, a court injunction banned Bangladeshi newspapers from publishing the materials, at which time Amar Desh stopped further publication.[2]
On 11 December 2012, Huq resigned from his position as chairman of ICT-1, citing personal reasons. Despite demands from Jamaat-e-Islami for the Tribunal to be scrapped, the Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said that Huq's resignation would not hamper trial proceedings.[3] On 13 December, Fazle Kabir, then head of the second tribunal (ICT-2), was named as the new chairman.[4] The defendants' applications for retrials were rejected.[5]
^ abc"The trial of the birth of a nation". The Economist. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^"Bangladesh newspaper editor at risk". Amnesty International. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
^"Tribunal chief quits over Skype scandal". The Daily Star. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^"Justice Kabir new chief". The Daily Star. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
^"Bloodletting after the fact". The Economist. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
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