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Bangladesh's apex court upholds Jamaat secretary general's death penalty

Xinhua, June 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh's apex court has upheld the death penalty for Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, secretary general of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, for killing intellectuals during Liberation War in 1971.

A four-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict on Tuesday morning, upholding the death penalty against the 67-year old Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party leader.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 in August 2013 awarded death sentence to the Bangladesh Jamaat leader Mojaheed, who is now behind the bar.

Mojaheed lodged his appeal with the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 the same year, seeking acquittal of all the charges against him.

The indictment order, in a brief profile of the accused, said Mojaheed was a key organizer of the Al-Badr, an auxiliary force of then Pakistani army which planned and executed the killing of Bangalee intellectuals at the end of the Liberation War in 1971.

Defense lawyer said they will file a review petition with the SC.

Mojaheed's Jamaat in a statement Tuesday again pleaded his innocence, saying he is another victim of political vendetta. Endi