Dhaka, April 27 -- Retired brigadier general Abdullahil Aman Azmi has testified that Sheikh Hasina was detained under his supervision during the military regime of Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

He made the statement on Monday during cross-examination by the defense in a case of crimes against humanity over allegations of enforced disappearance and torture at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC).

Azmi, son of former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Ghulam Azam, was questioned by defence lawyer Azizur Rahman Dulu before a two-member bench of the International Crimes Tribunal-1, headed by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder.

At one stage of the cross-examination, lawyer Dulu asked whether Azmi had ever met the ousted prime minister Hasina.

In response, Azmi ...