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Bangladesh will review Islamic leader's sentence

Xinhua, August 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

About a year after Bangladesh's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of the second-most important Islamic party leader convicted of war crimes to life imprisonment, the Bangladesh government Sunday said it will move a review with the apex court.

A five-member bench of Appellate Division of Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sept. 17 last year commuted the death sentence of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islmai party's vice president Delwar Hossain Sayeed for war crimes including mass killings during the country's war 43 years ago.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told media, "We'll file a review plea with the Supreme Court seeking his death penalty after obtaining the full verdict." Endi