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He served as the Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Ghulam Azam was arrested by the Awami League government on 11 January after he was found guilty in war crimes charges during the Bangladesh Liberation War in A member of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan , during the war, he unsuccessfully opposed the breakup of Pakistan. On 15 July , a Bangladeshi special tribunal, the International Crimes Tribunal found him guilty of war crimes such as conspiring, planning, incitement to and complicity in committing genocide and was sentenced to 90 years in jail.

Human Rights Watch, which was initially supportive of a trial subsequently criticized "strong judicial bias towards the prosecution and grave violations of due process rights", calling the trial process deeply flawed and unable to meet international fair trial standards. As a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, he led the formation of the Shanti Committees that were formed at the time of the Liberation War alongside other pro-Pakistan Bengali leaders.

He lived informally in Bangladesh from to without any authorised Bangladeshi visa. His citizenship was then reinstated by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Azam was arrested on 11 January by the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh on the charges of committing war crimes during the Bangladesh liberation war.

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Thousands of people attended his funeral prayers that were televised and held at Baitul Mukarram. His ancestral home is Maulvi Bari in Birgaon Village, Brahmanbaria , his paternal family is the noble Sheikh family of Birgaon, he descends from Sheikh Zaqi in his 6th generation who had migrated from Arabia , as a Muslim preacher and settled in the settlement of Birgaon beside the Meghna River in the 18th Century.

At that time, Bangladesh was part of Pakistan and known as "East Pakistan". In , the government of Ayub Khan banned Jamaat-e-Islami and its leaders, including Azam, and imprisoned them for eight months without trials. He played a prominent role as the general secretary of the Pakistan Democratic Movement formed in and later, he was elected as the member of Democratic Action Committee in to transform the anti-Ayub movement into a popular uprising.

In , he became the Ameer of the Jamaat in East Pakistan. He and other opposition leaders including future President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took part in the Round Table Conference held in Rawalpindi in to solve the prevailing political impasse in Pakistan. In the runup to the Pakistani general election , Azam together with leaders of a number of other parties in East Pakistan including the Pakistan Democratic Party , National Awami Party , Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and the Pakistan National League protested at the Awami League approach to electioneering for, accusing them of breaking up public meetings, physical attacks on political opponents and the looting and destruction of party offices.