Dhaka, Dec. 18 -- Chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal has said that senior BNP leader Ilias Ali was abducted and later killed, citing findings from a renewed investigation into enforced disappearances carried out during the previous government's tenure.

Mohammad Tajul Islam, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, disclosed the information on Wednesday after prosecutors submitted formal charges against Maj. Gen. (retd.) Ziaul Ahsan, a former senior Rapid Action Battalion official, in a case alleging abduction and extrajudicial killings. Investigators, he said, had found evidence linking Ziaul Ahsan to the disappearance and killing of more than 100 people. "Ilias Ali was picked up from the street, forcibly disappeared, and late...