Dhaka, May 27 -- Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was acquitted of all charges in a war crimes case, is expected to be released from prison on Wednesday morning.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon, his legal counsel Md Shishir Manir wrote: "In Sha Allah [God willing], we hope that Wednesday morning around 9-10am, he (Azharul Islam) will be released from the prison cell of PG Hospital."

Dhaka Central Jail (Keraniganj) Jailer AKM Masum said that Azharul is currently in hospital care at the cardiac block of Bangladesh Medical University.

The prison authorities will take steps once the court documents on Azharul's release are received, he added.

Azharul, then assistant secretary general of Jamaat, was among those sentenc...