The chief editor and South Asia bureau chief of British weekly, The Economist, will contest the International Crimes Tribunal-1 rule as to why proceedings should not be initiated against them for breach of privacy.
The lawyer for the respondents stated this to reporters on Monday after submitting their reply to the tribunal.
Supreme Court lawyer Mustafizur Rahman, on behalf of the respondents, submitted the Economist’s reply to the tribunal’s rule issued on December 6, 2012.
The tribunal fixed April 24 for hearing on the explanation.
Answering to newsmen, Mustafizur said that his clients had not violated the law and so they were contesting the tribunal’s rule.
The tribunal’s former chairman Justice Nizamul Huq had passed the order on December 6, 2012 on Adam Roberts, South Asia bureau chief, and Rob Gifford, Chief Editor of The Economist, for serious breach of privacy, hacking computer, e-mail and Skype accounts and obtaining confidential information illegally, which, the tribunal said, ‘amounted to influencing a judge of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.’
The tribunal passed the order a day after receiving a phone call from the weekly’s reporter and asked them to answer in three weeks.
The order had said that the tribunal chairman had come to know that the e-mail accounts, Skype and computers of the chairman and Brussels-based international law expert Ahmed Ziauddin, with whom the chairman occasionally had discussions, had been hacked ‘which makes it clear that the persons who are disturbing the ongoing process of this tribunal are involved in this matter.’
Justice Nizamul stepped down from his post on December 11, 2012 amid controversy over publication of his alleged Skype conversation in a Bangla daily in Bangladesh. (Source)
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