DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to hang fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI-Bangladesh) chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan.
The authorities on Wednesday served the death warrant to 72-year-old Mr Nizami, two months after the apex court upheld his death penalty.
The officials at suburban high security Kashimpur Jail told reporters that they have received the death warrant earlier this morning and served it to the convict (in the death row).
Attorney general Mahbubey Alam, meanwhile, said the top leader of the country’s biggest Islamist party would now get 15 days’ time to seek review of the judgement by the Supreme Court itself in his final bid to evade the gallows.
He, however, said that the scope of reviewing the judgement in a war crimes case is very slim.
