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Bangladesh seeks 2nd-most important Islamist party leader's death for war crimes

Xinhua, January 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

About one and a half years 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 Tuesday filed a review petition with the apex court seeking death penalty for the Islamist party leader.

A five-member bench of Appellate Division of Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sept. 17, 2014 commuted the death sentence of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party's Nayeb-e-Ameer (vice- president) Delwar Hossain Sayeedi for war crimes including mass killings during the country's war 44 years ago.

Sayeedi would have to remain imprisoned "for the rest of his natural life," said then Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain while delivering the judgment.

Deputy Attorney General Ekramul Haque Tutul told journalists Tuesday that the apex court will now fix a date for hearing the review petition.

Sayeedi, 74, considered a world famous orator on Islam and comparative religion, was indicted in October, 2011 with 20 charges of crimes against humanity including looting, killing, arson during the war.

Jamaat, allegedly collaborated with Pakistani forces in 1971 to prevent an independent Bangladesh, says Sayeedi is the victim of a political vendetta.

Three Jamaat leaders - Abdul Quader Molla, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, have been executed. Endit