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