DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami has been hanged over supporting united Pakistan in 1971.
He was executed at Dhaka Central Jail in the first hour of Wednesday. A controversial war crimes tribunal gave him the death sentence.
“The executive order to carry on with his execution was sent to the prison after the Jamaat-e-Islami chief had chosen not beg the president to have mercy on him,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the media
Police have cordoned off the area outside the prison gate at Old Dhaka’s Nazimuddin Road as crowds gathered to protest against the execution. He was the fifth JI leader executed by the controversial war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh.
Security had been heightened around the prison premises since Tuesday afternoon with additional police, RAB along with plainclothesmen roaming the area.
He sought a review after the Supreme Court upheld the maximum sentence on Jan 6 this year but the petition was dismissed last week.
