Bangladesh

SC upholds Mojaheed death penalty

Staff Correspondent
This file photo taken on July 17, 2013 shows secretary-general of Jamaat e Islam, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid (C), waving from a police vehicle as he is transported to the central jail following his court verdict in Dhaka. AFP file photo
This file photo taken on July 17, 2013 shows secretary-general of Jamaat e Islam, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid (C), waving from a police vehicle as he is transported to the central jail following his court verdict in Dhaka. AFP file photo

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld death sentence for Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general and former minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity in the Liberation War of 1971.

A four-member Appellate Division bench, led by chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha handed down the verdict, rejecting Mojaheed's plea of revising the death penalty.

It was the first case on the court’s cause list for the day.

On 17 July 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced the Jamaat leader to death, and some other sentences for separate charges.

Mojaheed had filed an appeal with the SC later seeking acquittal from all the charges against him.

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