A. T. M. Fazle Kabir Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
A. T. M. Fazle Kabir
Native Name Lang:bn
Office:Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Term Start:25 March 2011
Birth Date:1 January 1947
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Profession:Judge

A. T. M. Fazle Kabir is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He is a former judge of the International Crimes Tribunal.[1] [2] He is a former member of the law commission of Bangladesh.[3]

Early life

Kabir was born on 1 January 1947 in Chamagram, Chapai Nawabganj District, East Bengal, British India.[4]

Career

In March 2010, Kabir and Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain ordered the government to protect Madhupur National Park in Tangail District.[5]

Kabir was appointed the International Crimes Tribunal judge on 25 March 2011.

On 22 March 2013, Kabir was appointed the chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-2. He replaced Justice Md Nizamul Huq.[6] In December 2013, a petrol bomb was thrown at his home in Chapai Nawabganj District.[7] He had sentenced Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to death and Ghulam Azam to life imprisonment.[8] [9] He issued a contempt of court rule against Human Rights Watch for criticizing the verdict against Ghulam Azam.[10]

Kabir retired on 1 January 2014. On 23 January, he was appointed member of the Bangladesh Law Commission.

In May 2016, Bangladesh Law Commission issued a recommendation signed by its commissioners ABM Khairul Haque, M Shah Alam and ATM Fazle Kabir that the Bangladesh Press Council be given the authority to suspend the publication of a newspaper for 30 days.[11] The Press Council responded that it did not want such authority.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ICT judge Fazle Kabir retires . 2023-08-30 . bdnews24.com . en.
  2. News: Manik . Julfikar Ali . Yardley . Jim . 2013-03-01 . Death Toll From Bangladesh Unrest Reaches 44 . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-08-30 . 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: CJ’s brother made law commission member . 2023-08-30 . New Age . en.
  4. Web site: Khan . Mahbubur Rahman . 2014-01-01 . Justice Kabir retires as tribunal-1 chief . 2023-08-30 . The Daily Star . en.
  5. Web site: 2010-03-17 . Save Modhupur sal forest . 2023-08-30 . The Daily Star . en.
  6. Web site: 23 January 2014 . Fazle Kabir made Law Commission member . 30 August 2023 . Dhaka Tribune.
  7. Web site: 2013-12-13 . War tribunal judge’s home attacked . 2023-08-30 . The Daily Star . en.
  8. Web site: Baul . Tapas K. . Afroz . Tureen . Tureen Afroz . 2015-11-18 . Bangladesh’s Chowdhury was prosecuted fairly . 2023-08-30 . The Hill . en-US.
  9. News: 2013-10-01 . Bangladesh MP Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury to hang for war crimes . en-GB . BBC News . 2023-08-30.
  10. News: 2013-09-02 . Bangladesh: contempt notice against HRW . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-08-30 . 0971-751X.
  11. Web site: 2016-05-01 . 30-day closure of newspaper advised . 2023-08-30 . Prothomalo . en.