Dhaka: A leader of Bangladesh opposition Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party Delwar Hossain Sayedee has been sentenced to death on Thursday for allegedly committing atrocities during the country’s 1971 war.
A special tribunal in Bangladesh convicted Sayedee, vice-president of the party, of genocide, rape and religious persecution.
The JI terms the trials of its leadership politically motivated and unfair.
Earlier this month the International Crimes Tribunal, a local court, sentenced the party’s assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla to life imprisonment.
The sentences against the Jamaat’s leadership have sparked deadly protests and most of the country has been crippled with protests.
On the other hand, secular forces of the country term the sentences as “lighter” and demand the execution of Jamaat leaders.
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