S Arabia cannot oppose war crimes trial: HR boss
Saudi Arabia will have no ethical reason to oppose or protest if the allegations against the war criminals are proved and the court awards them the death penalty, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.
“We are holding (war crimes) trial of our own people. The highest punishment of the trial is death penalty. They [Saudi Arabia] have no chance to protest or regret from a moral point of view if the court sentences the war criminals to death,” he told reporters after a workshop at Dhaka University (DU).
DU Alumni Association and Ethics Club, an organisation of law students of the university, jointly organised the event at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban marking the 90th anniversary of DU.
The NHRC chief said open beheading is a violation of international human rights act.
Ethics Club President MI Shamin Chowdhury chaired the workshop while Barrister Amirul Islam, DU Alumni Association Secretary General Rakibuddin Ahmed, and Law Faculty Dean Prof Taslima Mansoor spoke on the occasion.
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