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Bangladesh jail asks family members to meet 2 opposition leaders as mercy pleas rejected

Xinhua, November 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh jail authorities have asked family members to meet two opposition leaders, raising speculation that they might be executed anytime.

The jail authorities asked the family members at about 9:00 p.m. (local time) Saturday to meet Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

Earlier in the day, both the opposition leaders filed petitions seeking presidential clemency, last option they had to escape death.

The petitions were sent to President Abdul Hamid through formal channels on Saturday night.

Later on the mercy petitions were reportedly rejected.

A four-member Appellate Division bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, on Wednesday dismissed the review petitions of Mujahid and Chowdhury, who is a member of BNP's Standing Committee, the highest policy-making body of the party. Endit