The 63-year-old faces the gallows within months unless his case is reviewed by the same court, or he is granted clemency by the Bangladeshi president.
Source/Credit: Al Jazeera / AFP
By AFP | March 8, 2016
Bangladesh's highest court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of a top business tycoon for war crimes, clearing the way for his execution within months.
Chief Justice SK Sinha announced in the Supreme Court he had dismissed the appeal of Mir Quasem Ali, who was convicted of murder and abduction during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
Ali, a shipping and real estate tycoon, headed a media corporation aligned with Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, before his arrest in 2012.
He was convicted of running a militia torture cell that carried out killings, including that of a young independence fighter in the 1970s.
"The court upheld his death sentence for the abduction and murder of a young freedom fighter whose body was dumped in a river," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told the AFP news agency. [more ...]
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