The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday issued a show cause notice on the editor, the publisher and a journalist of the daily New Age to explain why contempt charges should not be brought against them for publishing an article on Sunday.
The English daily ran an article titled “A crucial period for International Crimes Tribunal” in its OP-ED page written by David Bergman, Editor (special reports).
The tribunal asked New Age Editor Nurul Kabir, Publisher ASM Shahidullah Khan and David Bergman to give their explanation within October 23.
The three-member tribunal headed by its Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq observed that certain parts of the article were “contemptuous”.
He also observed that the whole article has been written with the intention to tarnish the image of the tribunal.
As per the ICT Act, “The tribunal may punish any person, who obstructs or abuses its process or disobeys any of its orders or directions, or does anything which tends to prejudice the case of a party before it, or tends to bring it or any of its members into hatred or contempt, or does anything which constitutes contempt of the tribunal, with simple imprisonment which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to taka five thousand, or with both.”
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