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Urgent: Bangladesh's apex court upholds top opposition leaders' death sentences

Xinhua, November 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh's highest court has upheld its previous verdict on Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), rejecting their pleas for reviewing death sentences for crimes against humanity during the country's war of independence in 1971. Endit