Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mojaheed Sentenced to Death by War Crimes Tribunal Wednesday July 17,2013

 

The war crimes tribunal found Jamaat-e-Islami’s secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mojaheed guilty of kidnapping and killing a journalist, a music director and a number of other people involving Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971

Ali Ahsan Mojaheed faces seven charges including genocide, murder, conspiracy and complicity in atrocities during the war. He is accused of leading a notorious group that during the war kidnapped and killed many teachers, journalists and writers who supported the cause for independence

The verdict came on Wednesday July 17,2013 in a packed courtroom in Dhaka, in the presence of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mojaheed