A Bangladesh apex court verdict paves the way for Nizami’s execution over his involvement in the crimes committed during the 1971 war that led to
Bangladesh’s independence.
Bangladeshi foreign secretary Mizanur Rahman summoned Alam. A foreign ministry official told Xinhua that a “protest note” was handed over to the Pakistan envoy.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry expressed “deep concern” over the dismissal of Nizami’s final review petition against his death sentence by Bangladesh’s
Supreme Court.
Nizami was indicted in 2012 with 16 charges of crimes against humanity, including looting, mass killings, arson, rape and forcefully converting people to Muslims during the 1971 war.
Verdict text released: The Bangladesh Supreme Court (SC) yesterday released the full text of its verdict rejecting the review petition of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami, thus upholding the death penalty awarded by the International Crimes
Tribunal (ICT).
The written verdicts were released after the four judges – Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique - of the Supreme Court bench signed the copies of the verdicts turning down the petition to review its earlier order upholding the death sentence for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Additional registrar Sabbir Foyez said a copy of the full verdict was sent to the ICT yesterday. Thereafter it would be forwarded to the jail authorities through the tribunal, he said.
With presidential clemency the only option left for him to avail, speculation is growing that Nizami is set to soon meet the same fate as three of his fellow erstwhile leaders of Jamaat - Qader Molla, A H M Qamruzzaman, Ali Ahsan Mujahid, - and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Earlier, Nizami was shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur on Sunday night.
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