Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami#List of Ameers

The Jamaat-e-Islami was founded in pre-partition British India by Syed Abul A'la Maududi at Islamia Park, Lahore on August 26, 1941 as a movement to promote social and political Islam. Jamaat opposed the creation of a separate state of Pakistan for the Muslims of India. It also did not support the Muslim League, then the largest Muslim party in the election of 1946. nor did it support the "Composite Nationalism" (Muttahida Qaumiyat Aur Islam) of the Jamiat Ulama e-Hind. Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, actively worked to prevent the partition of India, arguing that concept violated the Islamic doctrine of the ummah.{{cite book |last=Oh |first=Irene |year=2007 |title=The rights of God : Islam, human rights, and comparative ethics |url=https://archive.org/details/rightsofgodislam0000ohir |url-access=registration |publisher=Georgetown University Press |page=45 |isbn=978-1-58901-463-3 |quote="In the debate over whether Muslims should establish their own state, separate from a Hindu India, Maududi initially argued against such a creation and asserted that the establishment of a political Muslim state defined by borders violated the idea of the universal umma. Citizenship and national borders, which would characterize the new Muslim state, contradicted the notion that Muslims should not be separated by one another by these temporal boundaries. In this milieu, Maududi founded the organization Jama'at-e Islami. ... The Jama'at for its first few years worked actively to prevent the partition, but once partition became inevitable, it established offices in both Pakistan and India."}} Maulana Maududi saw the partition as creating a temporal border that would divide Muslims from one another.{{cite thesis |last=Rasheed |first=Nighat |date=2007 |title=A critical study of the reformist trends in the Indian Muslim society during the nineteenth century |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/52379/13/13_chapter%207.pdf#page=74 |type=PhD |publisher=Aligarh Muslim University |page=336 |access-date=2 March 2020}} The Jama'at -i-Islami was founded in 1941. Maulana Maududi being its founder strongly opposed the idea of creating Pakistan, a separate Muslim country, by dividing India, but surprisingly after the creation of Pakistan, he migrated to Lahore. Again in the beginning, he was opposed to and denounced the struggle for Kashmir as un-Islamic, for which he was imprisoned in 1950, but later on in 1965, he changed his views and endorsed the Kashmir war as Jihad. Maulana Maududi took an active part in demanding discriminative legislation and executive action against the Ahmadi sect leading to widespread rioting and violence in Pakistan. He was persecuted arrested and imprisoned for advocating his political ideas through his writings and speeches. During the- military regime from 1958 the Jama'at-iIslami was banned and was revived only in 1962, Maududi was briefly imprisoned. He refused to apologize for his actions or to request clemency from the government. He demanded his freedom to speak and accepted the punishment of death as the will of God. His fierce commitment to his ideals caused his supporters worldwide to rally for his release and the government acceded commuting his death sentence to a term of life imprisonment. Eventually, the military government pardoned Maulana Maududi completely He advocated for the whole of India to be reclaimed for Islam.{{cite book |last1=Esposito |first1=John L. |last2=Sonn |first2=Tamara |last3=Voll |first3=John Obert |title=Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-514798-8 |page=96 |language=en |quote=Mawdudi (d. 1979) was opposed to the partition of India, preferring that Muslims reclaim all of India for Islam.}}

After the creation of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami divided into separate Indian and Pakistani national organizations. When East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh, the East Pakistan wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan became Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.{{cite web | url=https://www.efsas.org/publications/study-papers/jamaat-e-islami-in-bangladesh-past,-present-and-future/ | title=Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Future }}{{cite web | url=https://www.efsas.org/publications/articles-by-efsas/ji-bangladesh-and-pakistan-april-2024/ | title=Revival in Motion? The Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh and Pakistan }}

Jamaat-e-Islami participated in the democratic movement in Pakistan during the Period of Martial Law declared by Ayub Khan. An all-party democratic alliance (DAC) was formed in 1965. Jamaat head of East Pakistan branch, Ghulam Azam was a member of the alliance, which also included Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002088177501400105 | doi=10.1177/002088177501400105 | title=The Jama'At-I-Islami of Pakistan: Ideology and Political Action | date=1975 | last1=Bahadur | first1=Kalim | journal=International Studies | volume=14 | pages=69–84 }}{{cite web | url=https://criterion-quarterly.com/jamaat-e-islami-pakistan/ | title=Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan) - Criterion Quarterly | date=16 July 2018 }}{{cite journal | url=https://research.nu.edu.kz/en/publications/islam-in-bangladesh-politics-the-role-of-ghulam-azam-of-jamaat-i- | title=Islam in Bangladesh politics: The role of Ghulam Azam of Jamaat-I-Islami | journal=Inter-Asia Cultural Studies | date=2004 | volume=5 | issue=3 | pages=384–399 | last1=Hossain | first1=Ishtiaq | last2=Siddiquee | first2=Noore Alam }}

Jamaat was banned after the independence of Bangladesh in December 1971, and its top leaders fled to West Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, also cancelled the citizenship of Ghulam Azam, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami who moved to Pakistan, the Middle East and the UK.{{cite news |date=16 June 2015 |title=Bangladesh war crimes trial: Key accused |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20970123 |work=BBC News}} Azam first fled to Pakistan and organized "East Pakistan Recovery Week". As information about his participation in the killing of civilians came to light "a strong groundswell of resentment against" East Pakistan JI leadership developed and Azam and Maulana Abdur Rahim were sent to Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, Azam and some of his followers successfully appealed for donations to "defend Islam" in Bangladesh, asserting that the Hindu minority there were "killing Muslims and burning their homes."{{cite book|last1=Karlekar|first1=Hiranmay|title=Bangladesh: The Next Afghanistan?|date=2005|publisher=SAGE Publishing|page=48}}

the then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in August 1975 by a group of officers of Bangladesh Army. post-Mujibur governments were immediately recognized by both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and Jamaat-e-Islami once again resumed political activities in Bangladesh. Ziaur Rahman also allowed Azam to return to Bangladesh as the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami.

After the end of Ershad's rule in 1990, mass protests began against Ghulam Azam and Jamaat-e-Islami, who were accused by the protestors of committing war crimes. The protests were headed by Jahanara Imam, a author who lost her elder son, Shafi Imam Rumi, in the 1971 war of independence. Azam's citizenship was challenged in a case that went to the Bangladesh Supreme Court, as he only held a Pakistani passport. Absent prosecution of Azam for war crimes, the Supreme Court ruled that he had to be allowed to have a Bangladeshi passport and the freedom to resume his political activities.https://bdjls.org/bangladesh-vs-professor-golam-azam-others-46-dlr-ad-1994-192/

Bangladesh Police arrested Jamaat-e-Islami chief and former Industry Minister Motiur Rahman Nizami from his residence in the capital in a graft case on 19 May 2008 and was charged with war crimes in 2009. He was hanged to death on 11 May 2016.{{cite news |title=Nizami executed |url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/104261/Nizami-executed |newspaper=Prothom Alo |access-date=10 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511133902/http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/104261/Nizami-executed |archive-date=11 May 2016 |url-status=dead }} Earlier, two former Cabinet Ministers of the immediate past BNP-Jamaat led coalition government, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and Shamsul Islam were sent to Dhaka Central Jail, after they surrendered before the court.{{cite web | url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/bhuiyan-shamsul-islam-in-jail | title=Bhuiyan, Shamsul Islam in jail }}https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-37204

As a result, in the parliamentary elections of December 2008, Jamaat-e-Islami garnered fewer than 5 seats out of the total 300 that constitute the national parliament. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party was concerned as Jamaat-e-Islami had been their primary political partner in the Four-Party Alliance.{{cite news |last=Azad |first=M Abul Kalam |date=30 December 2008 |title=Jamaat in checkmate |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-69281 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=30 October 2024}}

On 27 January 2009, the Bangladesh Supreme Court issued a ruling after 25 people from different Islamic organizations, including Bangladesh Tarikat Federation's Secretary General Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, Jaker Party's Secretary General Munshi Abdul Latif and Sammilita Islami Jote's President Maulana Ziaul Hasan, filed a joint petition. Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mujaheed and the Election Commission Secretary were given six weeks time to reply, but they did not. The ruling asked to explain as to "why the Jamaat's registration should not be declared illegal". As a verdict of the ruling, High Court cancelled the registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami on 1 August 2013,{{Cite web|url=http://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/nweb/case_history/case_history.php?div_id=2&case_id=179191|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208063534/http://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/nweb/case_history/case_history.php?div_id=2&case_id=179191|url-status=dead|title=Writ Petition 630/2009|archivedate=8 December 2015}}{{cite news|date=1 August 2013 |title=HC declares Jamaat registration illegal |url=http://theindependentbd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180166:hc-cancels-registration-of-jamaat-as-political-party&catid=187:online-edition&Itemid=223 |newspaper=The Independent |location=Dhaka |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217065607/http://theindependentbd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180166%3Ahc-cancels-registration-of-jamaat-as-political-party&catid=187%3Aonline-edition&Itemid=223 |archive-date=17 December 2013 |url-status=dead }} ruling that the party is unfit to contest national polls because its charter puts God above democratic process.{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite magazine |title=Bangladesh's volatile politics: The battling begums |url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21583297-pendulum-swings-away-sheikh-hasina-and-her-government-battling-begums |magazine=The Economist |date=10 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811103540/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21583297-pendulum-swings-away-sheikh-hasina-and-her-government-battling-begums |archive-date=11 August 2013 |url-status=live}}}}

On 5 August 2013, the Supreme Court rejected Jamaat's plea against the High Court. The chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik while rejecting the Jamaat's petition seeking stay on the High Court verdict, said that the Jamaat could move a regular appeal before the Appellate Division against the verdict after getting its full text.{{cite news |last=Habib |first=Haroon |date=5 August 2013 |title=Bangladesh SC rejects Jamaat's plea against disqualification |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/bangladesh-sc-rejects-jamaats-plea-against-disqualification/article4992375.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |agency=Press Trust of India |access-date=5 August 2013}}

In February 2013, following the verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and the announcement of death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayidee (a leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, during the Bangladesh independence war of 1971{{cite news |title=Tribunal hears war crimes of Sayedee |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-149471 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=5 August 2010}}), supporters of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir were involved in country-wide resistance and law enforcement killed 44 protesters and wounded 250.{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite news |title=Bagerhat, Barisal Hindu temples set ablaze |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/bagerhat-barisal-hindu-temples-set-ablaze |newspaper=Bdnews24.com |date=2 March 2013 |access-date=4 March 2013}}{{cite news |date=1 March 2013 |title=At Least 44 Dead in Bangladesh Clashes |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/at-least-44-dead-in-bangladesh-clashes/1613160.html |publisher=Voice of America News |access-date=4 March 2013}}{{cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Anis |title=Bangladesh Islamist's death sentence sparks deadly riots |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-tribunal-idUSBRE91R0AN20130228 |publisher=Reuters |date= 28 February 2013 |access-date=4 March 2013}}}} More than 50 temples were damaged, and more than 1,500 houses and business establishments of Hindus were torched in Gaibandha, Chittagong, Rangpur, Sylhet, Chapainawabganj, Bogra and in many other districts of the country,{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite news |title=Hindus under attack |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-270925 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=1 March 2013 |access-date=4 March 2013}}{{cite news |title=Bagerhat, Barisal Hindu temples set ablaze |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/bagerhat-barisal-hindu-temples-set-ablaze |newspaper=Bdnews24.com |date=2 March 2013 |access-date=4 March 2013}}{{cite news |title=Nine Die in Bogra violence |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/nine-die-in-bogra-violence |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=3 March 2013 |access-date=10 March 2013}}{{cite news |date=4 March 2013 |script-title=bn:সহিংসতায় সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের অর্ধশতাধিক উপাসনালয় ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত |trans-title=Violent Vandalism of More Than 50 Temples of Minority Communities |url=http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2013-03-04/news/333874 |newspaper=Prothom Alo |language=bn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307134415/http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2013-03-04/news/333874 |archive-date=7 March 2013 |access-date=8 March 2013}}}} By March 2013, more than 87 people were killed by the government's law enforcement agencies.{{cite news |url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamic-party-wants-to-expel-minorities,-reunify-with-Pakistan-27323.html |title=BANGLADESH Islamic party wants to expel minorities, reunify with Pakistan |first1=Nozrul |last1=Islam |date=7 March 2013 |work=AsiaNews |access-date=26 January 2015}} Jamaat-e-Islami supporters called for the fall of the Awami League regime.{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite web|title=National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=4065|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=31 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727233321/http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=4065|archive-date=27 July 2013|url-status=dead}} They have been accused widely from murdering opponent political party activists to instigating riots by spreading fraudulent news.{{cite news |title=Lie worked well |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-271242 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=4 March 2013 |access-date=31 August 2013}}{{cite news |title=A devil's design |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-253751 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=14 October 2012 |access-date=31 August 2013}}}}

As a result of involvement of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir's support for student protestors in the Bangladesh quota protests,{{Cite news|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/7asvdqv0e3|title=Student-mass movement: Death toll keeps rising, 757 till date|last=Hassan|first=Ahmadul|date=24 August 2024|language=en|access-date=29 January 2025|work=Prothom Alo}} Hasina's regime decided to fully ban the party on 1 August 2024.{{efn|Multiple references:{{Cite news |agency=PTI |date=1 August 2024 |title=Bangladesh bans Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir under anti-terrorism law |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-bans-jamaat-e-islami-and-its-student-wing-islami-chhatra-shibir-under-anti-terrorism-law/article68472720.ece |access-date=1 August 2024 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}{{cite news |last1=Report |first1=Star Digital |title=Government bans Jamaat, Shibir |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/government-bans-jamaat-shibir-3667116 |work=The Daily Star |date=1 August 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Govt bans Jamaat-Shibir under Anti-Terrorism Act |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/politics/govt-bans-jamaat-shibir-907771 |work=The Business Standard |date=1 August 2024 |language=en}}}} However, it was reversed on 28 August 2024 and the ban on Jamaat-Shibir and its affiliated organizations was officially lifted.{{cite news |title=Ban on Jamaat-Shibir lifted |url=https://www.daily-sun.com/post/764208 |work=Daily Sun |date=28 August 2024 |language=en}} On 1 June 2025, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami regained registration after a order by the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh top court lifts ban on country's largest Muslim party |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/1/bangladesh-top-court-lifts-ban-on-jamaat-e-islami-countrys-largest-muslim-party|access-date=2 June 2025 |work=Al Jazeera |date=1 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250602103830/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/1/bangladesh-top-court-lifts-ban-on-jamaat-e-islami-countrys-largest-muslim-party |archive-date=2 June 2025 |language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://dailynayadiganta.com/bangladesh/law-and-justice/BQF3eCU97pz6|title=|date=1 June 2025|language=bn|script-title=bn:জামায়াতের নিবন্ধন ফিরিয়ে দিতে আপিল বিভাগের নির্দেশ|access-date=1 June 2025|work=Daily Naya Diganta}}

Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and publications claim the party to be Islamic democrat and welfarist.{{cite web|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/366810/jamaat-dreams-of-building-democratic-and-free|title=Jamaat dreams of building a democratic and free Bangladesh|website=Dhaka Tribune|date=1 December 2024}} However, third-party and neutral sources identified the party's ideology more aligned with right wing populist Islamism.{{cite web|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/mg3rtpr5m3|title=Jamaat manoeuvring for 'electoral alliance' with other Islamists|website=Prothom Alo|author=Selim Zahid|date=25 September 2024}} According to a JI publication titled An Introduction to Bangladesh Jamaate Islami, the party aims to turn Bangladesh into an "Islamic welfare state".{{cite web|first=Mubashar|last=Hasan|title=Will BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami Form an Alliance in Post-Hasina Bangladesh?|website=The Diplomat|url=https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/will-bnp-and-jamaat-e-islami-form-an-alliance-in-post-hasina-bangladesh/|date=23 November 2024}} It's incumbent leader, Shafiqur Rahman, described his party to be a "modern, liberal democratic party, whose ideal is Islam".{{cite web|script-title=bn:‘জামায়াতে ইসলামী একটি আধুনিক-উদার-গণতান্ত্রিক দল’|url=https://www.alokitobangladesh.com/politics/247030/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B2|website=Alokito Bangladesh|date=23 November 2024}}

The Ameer is the title of the head of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. List of ameers:

Many of Jamaat's leaders were accused of committing war crimes and genocide during the independence war of Bangladesh in 1971 and several had been convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal.{{cite news |date=28 February 2013 |title=Bangladesh sentences Jamaat-e-Islami leader to death for war crimes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/bangladesh-sentences-jamaat-e-islami-leader-death |newspaper=The Guardian |agency=Associated Press |access-date=5 April 2013}}

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By November 2011, the International Crimes Tribunal had charged two BNP leaders and ten Jamaat leaders with war crimes committed during the Bangladesh War of Independence and 1971 Bangladesh genocide.

Abul Kalam Azad, a nationally known Islamic cleric and a former member of Jamaat, was charged with genocide, rape, abduction, confinement and torture. He was tried in absentia after having fled the country; police believed that he is in Pakistan.{{cite news |last=Quadir |first=Serajul |title=Islamic cleric sentenced to death for Bangladesh war crimes |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-trial-idUSBRE90K0AT20130121 |newspaper=Reuters |date=21 January 2013}} In January 2013, Azad was the first suspect to be convicted in the trials; he was found guilty of seven of eight charges and sentenced to death by hanging.{{cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Tanim |author2=Golam Mujtaba |date=21 January 2013 |title=Azad gets death for war crimes |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/azad-gets-death-for-war-crimes |newspaper=bdnews24.com}} Azad's defence lawyer, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer appointed by the state, did not have any witnesses in the case; he said Azad's family failed to cooperate in helping locate witnesses and refused to testify as there was no chance of a fair trial.{{cite news |title=Azad to be hanged for war crimes |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=44161 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=21 January 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222061255/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=44161 |archive-date=22 February 2013}}

The summary of verdict in the conviction of Abdul Quader Mollah recognized the role played by Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing ('Islami Chatra Sangha') as collaborators with the Pakistan Army in 1971. The party was found guilty of forming paramilitary forces, such as Razakar and Al-Badr. It was said to have taken part in the systematic genocide of the Bangladeshi people and other violent activities.{{cite news |title=Summary of verdict in Quader Mollah case |date=6 February 2013 |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-268072 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}

As a result of the trials, the activists of the 2013 Shahbag Protest have demanded that the government ban Jamaat from Bangladeshi politics.{{cite news |title=Shahbagh grand rally demands ban on Jamaat |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=44631 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=9 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209165202/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=44631 |archive-date=9 February 2013}}{{cite news |title=Cry for Jamaat ban |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/cry-for-jamaat-ban |newspaper=Bdnews24.com |date=8 February 2013 |access-date=9 February 2013}} In response, the government started drafting a bill to ban Jamaat-e-Islami from Bangladeshi politics.{{cite news |date=12 February 2013 |title=Bill to ban Jamaat on way |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/bill-to-ban-jamaat-on-way |newspaper=bdnews24.com}}

On 28 February 2013, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, the deputy Ameer of Jamaat, was found guilty of genocide, rape and religious persecution. He was sentenced to death by hanging.{{cite news |date=28 February 2013 |title=Bangladesh Jamaat leader sentenced to death |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/02/201322865638456746.html |newspaper=Al Jazeera |access-date=28 February 2013}} His defence lawyer had earlier complained that a witness who was supposed to testify for him was abducted from the gates of the courthouse on 5 November 2012, reportedly by police, and has not been heard from since. The government did not seem to take the issue seriously after the prosecution denied there was a problem. It is presumed that the security forces killed the witness as the entire judicial process was to vanish the opposition.{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Brad |title=Bangladesh: Find Abducted Witness |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/16/bangladesh-find-abducted-witness |newspaper=Human Rights Watch |date=16 January 2013}}

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, senior assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami was indicted on 7 June 2012 on 7 counts of crimes against humanity.{{cite news |title=Kamaruzzaman verdict 'any day' |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/kamaruzzaman-verdict-any-day |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=16 April 2013}} On 9 May 2013, he was convicted and given the death penalty on five counts of mass killings, rape, torture and kidnapping.{{cite news |last=Hossain |first=Farid |title=Backlash feared as Bangladesh sentences Islamic politician Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/backlash-feared-as-bangladesh-sentences-islamic-politician-muhammad-kamaruzzaman-to-death-8608826.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=9 May 2013}}

Ghulam Azam, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh until 2000 was found guilty by the ICT on five counts. Incitement, conspiracy, planning, abatement and failure to prevent murder. He was sentenced on 15 July 2013 to 90 years imprisonment.{{cite news |last=Khalidi |first=Toufique Imrose |title=90 years for Jamaat guru Ghulam Azam |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/90-years-for-jamaat-guru-ghulam-azam |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=15 July 2013}}

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was sentenced to death by hanging on 22 November 2015.{{cite magazine |date=16 June 2015 |title=Bangladesh upholds death sentence for war collaborator |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mojaheed-death-sentence-upheald/1/444839.html |magazine=India Today}}

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who fled to the UK after the independence of Bangladesh and a leader of the London-based Jamaat organization Dawatul Islam,{{cite book |author1=Āhamada Śarīpha |title=Genocide '71, an account of the killers and collaborators |edition=5th |publisher=Muktijuddha Chetana Bikash Kendra |pages=185, 248 |oclc=21593686}} was indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide and being a leader of the Al-Badr militia. He is also accused of the murder of East Pakistan's top intellectuals during the war, although he has denied all charges. These activities of then ruling government, Awami League, were widely criticized in the international community.{{cite news |date=2 May 2013 |title=British Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10032961/British-Muslim-leader-Chowdhury-Mueen-Uddin-indicted-for-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10032961/British-Muslim-leader-Chowdhury-Mueen-Uddin-indicted-for-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=London |agency=Agence France-Presse}}{{cbignore}}

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Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir functions as the de facto student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, with numerous former leaders advancing to hold prominent leadership roles within the party.{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/world/bangladesh-bans-jamaat-e-islami-under-anti-terrorism-law-9489831/|title=Bangladesh bans Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir under anti-terrorism law|date=1 August 2024|website=The Indian Express|author=PTI|access-date=19 January 2025}} The organization has significant presence at many colleges and universities of Bangladesh, including the Chittagong College, Government Bangla College, Dhaka College, Government Titumir College, University of Chittagong, University of Dhaka, Rajshahi University, Islamic University, Begum Rokeya University, Carmichael College etc. It is also influential in Madrasahs. It is the successor of East Pakistan Islami Chatra Sangha, the East Pakistan wing of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba.{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite web|url=http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/islami-chhatra-shibir|title=Islami Chhatra Shibir|access-date=26 January 2015}}{{cite news |last=Habib |first=Haroon |date=18 July 2013 |title=Jamaat secretary-general gets death penalty for war crimes |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/jamaat-secretarygeneral-gets-death-penalty-for-war-crimes/article4926010.ece |newspaper=The Hindu}}{{cite news|date=3 August 2012 |title=Kamaruzzaman led Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams: witness |url=http://old-archives.newagebd.net/detail.php?date=2012-08-03&nid=19421 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127070548/http://old-archives.newagebd.net/detail.php?date=2012-08-03&nid=19421 |archive-date=27 January 2016 }}{{cite news |date=10 May 2013 |title=Key man of Al-Badr |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/key-man-of-al-badr |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=26 January 2015}}{{cite news |date=17 September 2013 |title=Mirpur butcher Molla must die, says SC |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/mirpur-butcher-molla-must-die-says-sc |work=bdnews24.com |access-date=26 January 2015}}{{cite news |date=22 June 2012 |title=Mojaheed indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity |url=http://old-archives.newagebd.net/detail.php?date=2012-06-22&nid=14609 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |access-date=10 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127070548/http://old-archives.newagebd.net/detail.php?date=2012-06-22&nid=14609 |archive-date=27 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}}} It is a member of the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.{{cite news |title=Shibir collects tolls from the hostel residents in 2 Ctg colleges |url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-09-13&nid=33153 |date=13 September 2011 |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006100724/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-09-13&nid=33153 |archive-date=6 October 2013}}{{cite news |title=Shibir rented out RU hall seats |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-128474 |date=3 March 2010 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=26 January 2015 |archive-date=14 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014035005/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=128474 |url-status=dead }}

Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha functions as the female student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, being established in 15 July 1978.

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