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2 opposition leaders in Bangladesh get death verdicts

Xinhua, September 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh's apex court Wednesday released the full trial verdicts that sentenced two opposition leaders to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 war.

Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party's Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, who are behind the bars, were sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal after they were found guilty of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war.

On June 16, the apex court upheld the death penalty for Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. Endi