B’desh set to hang another Jamaat leader

Bangladesh is set to hang fundamentalist Jamaate-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Authorities have served the death warrant to 72-year-old Nizami, two months after the apex court upheld his death penalty .
Attorney general Mahbubey Alam said the top leader of the country’s biggest Islamist party would now get 15 days’ time to seek review of the judgment by the Supreme Court in his final bid to evade the gallows. He, however, said that the scope of reviewing the judgment in a war crimes case is very slim. He said Nizami could seek presidential mercy immediately if the review petition was rejected but he would not get any extra time to decide for seeking the clemenc. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal originally sentenced Nizami to death in October 29, 2014. The apex court upheld the verdict on January 6 this year.