BSMMU refutes Ghulam Azam food allegation
Afifa Azam, wife of detained former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam yesterday alleged that her husband was not being provided with proper food at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) prison cell. But the authorities rejected the allegation outright saying it was nothing but propaganda.
She raised the allegation after visiting Ghulam Azam in the afternoon when her son former Brig Gen Abdullahil Aman Azmi and his wife were also present.
Afifa alleged that her husband was being pushed into the door of death through inadequate food and malnutrition.
Denying the allegation, Brig Gen Abdul Majid Bhuiya, director of BSMMU, told The Daily Star that Ghulam Azam was being supplied with all the food according to the demands of his family.
Ghulam Azam has been detained on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal on January 11 ordered sending him to jail after he appeared before the tribunal. Later he was shifted to the BSMMU prison cell owing to his ailing condition.
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