On january 21st it sentenced abul kalam azad to death in absentia for genocide and murder committed during the nine-month war in 1971 .

1月21日，法庭以阿布卡拉姆阿扎德在1971年持续9个月的战争中犯下的种族灭绝罪和谋杀罪缺席判处其死刑。