Abdul Quader Mollah,Bangladesh Jamaat leader gets death for 1971 war crimes Tuesday Sep 17,2013

Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday Sep 17,2013 handed down death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami stalwart Abdul Quader Mollah for 1971 war crimes, revising a special tribunal verdict, which had sentenced him to life imprisonment

“He is being handed down the capital punishment,” said Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain.

Mollah, the fourth-highest Jamaat leader, is the first politician to be found guilty by the Supreme Court after it rejected an appeal to acquit him of all charges

According to the judgment, Mollah was not found guilty in only one of the six charges while the Supreme Court upheld the sentences handed down earlier by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal for other four charges and sentenced him to death for the sixth charge


Abdul Quader Mollah was on Thursday Dec 12,2013 executed in Dhaka

The execution took place at 10:01 hours on Thursday night at the Dhaka Central Jail, where the assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, which had violently opposed the independence from Pakistan 42 year ago, was lodged

 The execution took place hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his petition to review his death sentence

The 65-year-old Quader Mollah declined to seek presidential clemency though the authorities approached him thrice