Condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali yesterday filed a review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict upholding his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Mir Ahmed bin Quasem, son of Ali, who submitted the review petition with the Supreme Court, said there were 14 grounds for seeking release of the convict in the war crimes case.
On June 6, the International Crimes Tribunal issued a death warrant for the Jamaat-e-Islami leader hours after the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty.
On March 8, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for Ali for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 in a verdict had sentenced Ali in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on November 2, 2014.
On November 30, 2014, Ali filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.
Among the total 14 charges brought against Ali for war crimes, the tribunal convicted him on 10 counts of charges and acquitted him from four.
The 64-year-old top Jamaat-e-Islami financier was president of the Chittagong city unit of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of the party, till November 6, 1971.
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