DHAKA: Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for a top leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for alleged war crimes during 1971 war.
On Tuesday, a four-member panel headed by the country’s chief justice dismissed the appeal by Jamaat-e-Islami party’s Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed against a 2013 verdict sentencing him to death.
Mojaheed was convicted in 2013 of five charges including murder, abduction and torture.
Execution Process Starts
Bangladesh Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said the process for executing war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will start after the release of Supreme Court’s full verdict that upheld his death sentence.
However, the process of his execution will automatically be halted if Mojaheed files a review petition with the apex court against its judgment, the attorney general said in a press briefing at his office after the SC delivered its verdict.
