Mir Quasem won’t seek presidential clemency: Authorities
Death-row convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali will not seek presidential clemency, Kashimpur jail super Proshanta Kumar Banik has said.
With this development, no legal procedure is left out before execution of Quasem whom the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh awarded death penalty for crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war.
“Mir Quasem Ali has told us that he will not seek the presidential clemency,” the jail super told the Prothom Alo on Friday.
He said Mir Quasem informed the jail super about his decision when the official approached him to know about it.
Earlier, the family members of Mir Quasem Ali after meeting him at Kashimpur told the media that Quasem will not take a decision on whether to seek clemency until he gets back his missing son.
Talking to the Prothom Alo on Friday, Quasem’s daughter Sumaiya Rabeya said his father had said he would not take a decision without his missing son. “Now we have come to know that he has decided to not seek the clemency.”
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on 30 August rejected Quasem’s review petition, upholding the death penalty for him for the 1971 crimes against humanity.
On 8 March, the Appellate Division upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem Ali for the war-time crimes.
The court 2 of The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICT,B) sentenced Mir Quasem Ali to death on 2 November 2014.
On 30 November 2014, he filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.
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