DHAKA: Controversial International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on Wednesday has sentenced death to Ali Ahsan, a senior leader of the country’s largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami on committing war crimes in 1971 independence war.
Earlier, the courth sentenced life imprisonment to former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Ghulam Azam 90, for masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan on July 15.
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed 65, was found guilty by the International Crimes Tribunal of five charges including abduction, murder.
MK Rahman, Bangladesh’s junior attorney-general and prosecutor said “In three out of five charges he was given the death sentence,”.
Mojaheed, the secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami, had faced seven charges of murder, mass killing, torture, arson and abduction during he war of liberation against Pakistan.
According to foreign news channel from Dhaka, Mojaheed’s son said that the crimes he was accused of were politically motivated.
Mojaheed was an influential minister in the 2001-2006 government headed by Khaleda Zia, the present head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
On call of nationwide strike by Jamaat supporters, Bangladesh had shut down for a third straight day on Wednesday over the life imprisonment sentence to 90-year-old leader spiritual leader of the Islamic party Ghulam Azam.
Bangladeshi police had arrested on June 30 three of the top leaders of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party on the rarely-used charge of “offending religious sentiment” including Motiur Rahman Nizami, the head of Jamaat-e-Islami party, his deputy Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and top preacher Delwar Hossain Saydee in the capital Dhaka, city.
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