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emails, if genuine, would indeed raise questions about the working of the court and we are bound to investigate them as fully as we can." It further wrote about its coverage of the cache,"There is a risk not only of a miscarriage of justice affecting the individual defendants, but also that the wrongs which
Bangladesh has already suffered will be aggravated by the flawed process of the tribunal. That would not heal the country's wounds, but deepen them." The court called the UK magazine's article on the Skype conversation "interference" and a "violation" of privacy and ordered its representatives to appear before the court in Bangladesh to answer for contempt of court.
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magazine, 21 December 2012) that the Awami League-led government is "absolutely crazy for a judgment. The government has gone mad. They have gone completely mad, I am telling you. They want a judgment by 16th
December... It's as simple as that." Later in the video, he admits that he publicly met with
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reported that he had learned that Huq had transferred his entire computer drive over multiple computers and a US-based security firm said people with legal access to those drives gave its agents the files. In the New Age article, Bergman quotes James
Mulvaney, who is from Guardian Consulting LLC and
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Huq was a member of the
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Nizamul Huq resigned his position for "personal reasons" and shortly after the release of the full 17 hours of Skype conversations and 230 emails between himself and
Ziauddin to news sources. From December 2012 until March 2013, it was unknown who had obtained access to the Skype conversations and
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said in its article "The trial of the birth of a nation" (12 December 2012) that it would not normally publish private correspondence, denied that it had paid for the materials and acknowledged issues of press ethics, but it cited "public interest" behind its decision. The magazine wrote, "These
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an appointed minister from the government and was pressured by that minister for quick verdicts. Huq said, the minister "came to visit me this evening. He asked me to pass this verdict fast. I told him 'how can I do that?'... He said, 'Try as quick as you can.'" The newspaper
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