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    Molla's execution stayed

    In a dramatic development late last night, the chamber judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain stayed the execution of war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah until 10:30am Wednesday.

    The stay order came couple of hours before the implementation of the apex court verdict that sentenced Quader Mollah to death.

    Molla’s counsels rushed to the house of the chamber judge last night with a prayer to stay the execution as they wanted to file a review petition challenging the death penalty.

    Supreme Court Registrar AKM Shamsul Islam at 10:37pm yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune over phone that the chamber judge had stayed the execution and fixed to hear the review petition at 10:30am Wednesday.

    Earlier, State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku around 8pm announced that the government had decided to execute Quader Mollah last night and that the prison authorities were prepared to implement the death sentence.

    Molla's counsels led by Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Abdur Razzak rushed to the chamber judge’s house at the judges’ complex on Bailey Road in the capital to stay the execution.

    At that time, no state counsel was present.

    Until filing of this report at 11pm, the prison authorities had not given any version.

    Quader Molla’s lawyers went to the Dhaka Central Jail to give a copy of the chamber judge's order to the authorities.

    Justice Syed Mahmud is also a member of the five-member Appellate Division bench that sentenced Quader Molla to death.

    The bench was headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain. The other members are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Wahhab Mia and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik.

    Except Justice Wahhab, the four other judges of the bench awarded Quader Molla death sentence. The judge awarded the war criminal life-term for the crimes against humanity he had committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

    http://www.dhakatribune.com/crime/20....zjmBMgQj.dpuf
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    Bangladesh Halts Execution of Opposition Leader

    Lawyers for a leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party sought Wednesday to have his death sentence thrown out after a late-night reprieve saved his life just hours before he was to be hanged.

    Abdul Quader Mollah, convicted of war crimes during the nation's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971, was due to be executed at a minute past midnight, but lawyers went to the home of Judge Syed Mahmud Hossain and secured a postponement.

    The lawyers are trying to convince the Supreme Court to throw out the sentence in a case that could usher in a new wave of political violence ahead of national elections set for next month.

    After beginning to hear the case Wednesday, the Supreme Court adjourned until Thursday.

    Mollah's party, Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, enforced a nationwide general strike on Wednesday and issued a statement warning of "dire consequences" if he were executed.

    Hundreds of pro-government activists, meanwhile, blocked traffic on a main road in Dhaka demanding Mollah's immediate execution.

    The developments come at a time of deep tension in Bangladesh, a nation struggling to overcome extreme poverty and rancorous politics.

    Mollah would be the first person executed in special trials begun by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2010 of people suspected of crimes during the nation's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. The government says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the nine-month war.

    Most of the defendants in the trials are opposition members. Mollah's party and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party say the trials are an attempt to weaken the opposition and eliminate Islamic parties. International human rights groups have also raised questions about the impartiality of the tribunal. Authorities have denied the allegations.

    Deadly clashes have followed court verdicts against six other current and former officials of Mollah's party, and extra police are stationed in the capital to head off any new violence. Paramilitary guards are on standby across the country as well.

    Carrying out the execution would complicate an already critical political situation in Bangladesh, where the opposition has carried out violent protests for weeks to back a demand for an independent caretaker government to oversee the general elections early next year.

    The government has rejected that demand and said a political government headed by Hasina would conduct the elections.

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke by phone with Hasina "to express his strong concern about the prevailing situation in the country," a statement from his office said Wednesday.

    It said Ban urged Hasina to "resolve differences" over the upcoming elections with dialogue.

    The election is set for Jan. 5, but the opposition alliance led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia plans to boycott it. Weeks of blockades and general strikes have left nearly 100 people dead since October. Mollah's party has been banned by the Election Commission from taking part in the elections.

    Mollah's family had met him at a Dhaka jail on Tuesday for what was expected to be the last time.

    As authorities finalized the time for the execution, many cellphone users in Bangladesh received text messages from an unknown number that said if Mollah was executed a civil war could break out. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said it is trying to determine who sent the messages.

    Defense counsel Sazzad Ali Chowdhury said the postponement late Tuesday gave lawyers time to file the petition which the Supreme Court's Appellate Division was reviewing Wednesday.

    Mollah was found guilty by the special tribunal in February of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others during the independence war. He was sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court changed the penalty to a death sentence in September, triggering deadly clashes and a nationwide general strike.

    Until it gained independence in 1971, Bangladesh was the eastern wing of Pakistan. Mollah's party campaigned against Bangladesh's independence and has been accused of forming several groups to help Pakistani troops in killing, rape and arson.

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/...inglePage=true

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    Bangladesh supreme court upholds death penalty for Abdul Quader Mollah

    Bangladesh's supreme court has cleared the way for the execution of an opposition leader convicted of war crimes when it rejected a last-minute appeal filed by his lawyers.

    The execution of Abdul Quader Mollah, which had been on hold since Tuesday night just before he was to be put to death, is likely to usher in a new wave of political violence before national elections next month. His party, Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, has warned of "dire consequences" if he is executed.

    The attorney general, Mahbubey Alam, said the government would now decide the date for the execution. "There are no more barriers to execute Quader Mollah. There is no chance of any confusion," he said on Thursday.

    Mollah, 65, was convicted of war crimes committed during the nation's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. His lawyers tried to convince the supreme court, which began hearing the case on Wednesday, to throw out the sentence.

    "My client has been deprived of fair justice. But since the highest court has made the decision we have nothing more to say," defence lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain said.

    It was not immediately clear if an announcement would precede the execution.

    AKM Shamsul Islam, an official of the supreme court, said the justices had forwarded the court decision to authorities.

    The developments come at a time of deep tension in Bangladesh, a nation struggling to overcome extreme poverty and rancorous politics.

    Security officials opened fire to disperse opposition activists in eastern Bangladesh, leaving at least three people dead and 15 others wounded, Dhaka's leading Bengali-language Prothom Alo newspaper reported.

    The chaos broke out in Laxmipur district, 60 miles (96km) east of Dhaka, during a nationwide opposition blockade after elite security forces raided and searched the home of an opposition leader, the paper reported.

    Mollah would be the first person executed in special trials begun by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in 2010 of people suspected of crimes during the war of independence. The government says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the nine-month war.

    Most of the defendants are opposition members. Mollah's party and the Bangladesh Nationalist party say the trials are an attempt to weaken the opposition and eliminate Islamic parties. The authorities have denied the allegations.

    Asif Munier, son of a university teacher who was killed in 1971 for supporting independence, said he was happy with the decision.

    "Yes, we are happy because justice has been served … It's not about any revenge but for justice," Munier said immediately after the supreme court decision.

    Carrying out the execution would complicate an already critical political situation in Bangladesh, where the opposition has held violent protests for weeks to back a demand for an independent caretaker government to oversee the general elections set for 5 January.

    The government has rejected that demand and said a political government headed by Hasina would conduct the elections, although the opposition alliance led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia plans to boycott the vote. Weeks of blockades and general strikes have left nearly 100 people dead since October.

    Mollah was found guilty by the special tribunal in February of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others during the independence war. He was sentenced to life in prison, but the supreme court changed that to a death sentence in September.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-quader-mollah
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    Koshai Quader hanged

    Forty-two years into Bangladesh’s bloody war of liberation, Abdul Quader Mollah, a key ally of the Pakistani occupation force, was hanged tonight inside Dhaka Central Jail for his wartime offences.

    The first war criminal to pay for the 1971 crimes against humanity, the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general was executed at 10:01pm hours after the country’s highest court dismissed his petition to review his death sentence.

    The then president of Shahidullah Hall unit of Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat, the 65-year-old completed full circle of legal ways before walking to the gallows.

    Known as Koshai (butcher) Quader for his brutal style of torture on the freedom-seeking people during the country’s Liberation War, he declined to seek presidential clemency even though the authorities approached him thrice.

    An ambulance has entered Dhaka Central Jail to take Mollah’s body to his village home in Faridpur where he will be buried.

    His body will be handed over to his relatives.

    A special squad of Rab and police has been formed to provide them security on the way.

    It was Mollah’s sentence — life-term imprisonment — on February 5 which triggered a youth upsurge in the capital, known popularly as Shahbagh Movement, that later spread across the country.

    The ICT-2 awarded Mollah life imprisonment on two out of six charges and different jail terms on the other three proved charges.

    For weeks, Shahbagh youths continued their movement to press home the demand of execution of war criminals, forcing the government to bring an amendment to the International Crimes Tribunal law, which is the basis for the special tribunal trying the accused of war crimes committed 42 years ago.

    The state on March 3 appealed with the SC against the life-term ruling, terming it “inadequate” and seeking the death penalty for his wartime offences.

    On September 17, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain revised the verdict, sentencing Mollah to death.

    After the full text of the verdict was released, ICT-2 issued death warrant for the Jamaat leader on December 8.

    http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/ne...quader-hanged/
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    Bangladesh Protests: Execution Of Opposition Leader Sparks Violent Demonstrations

    DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The execution of an opposition leader in Bangladesh sparked violent protests Friday as activists torched homes and businesses belonging to government supporters, leaving at least three people dead, in a fresh wave of bloodshed ahead of next month's elections.

    Abdul Quader Mollah, 65, was hanged Thursday night for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. The case has exacerbated the explosive political divide in Bangladesh, an impoverished country of 160 million.

    Even as violence swept through parts of the country Friday, hundreds of people rejoiced in the streets of the capital, Dhaka, and said justice had been served.

    In an editorial, Bangladesh's English-language Daily Star newspaper congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for trying and executing Mollah "40 long years" after he committed his crimes.

    Mollah, a leader of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, was the first person to be hanged for war crimes in Bangladesh under an international tribunal established in 2010 to investigate atrocities stemming from the independence war.

    Following the execution, Jamaat-e-Islami activists on Friday attacked ruling party supporters and minority Hindus in parts of Bangladesh, torching their homes and shops. At least three people died in the violence, local TV stations reported. Dhaka, however, was calm.

    Hindus are believed to be supporters of Hasina.

    Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators including Mollah, killed at least 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the nine-month war.

    The case remains politically volatile because most of those being tried are connected to the country's opposition. Mollah was a key member of Jamaat-e-Islami, which is barred from taking part in next month's national elections. But the group is closely tied to the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

    Opponents of Jamaat-e-Islami say it is a fundamentalist group with no place in a secular country. Bangladesh is predominantly Muslim, but is governed by largely secular laws.

    The special tribunal convicted Mollah of killing a student and a family of 11, and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 other people during the war. The court had stopped his execution at the last minute Tuesday night — just hours before he was due to be hanged — before rejecting his final appeal.

    The execution could complicate an already tense political situation in Bangladesh, where the opposition has carried out violent protests, demanding an independent caretaker government to oversee the Jan. 5 general election.

    The government rejected that demand. An opposition alliance led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia plans to boycott the vote. Weeks of protests have left nearly 100 people dead since October.

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    Ten more dead in Bangladesh as PM issues warning

    Ten more people were killed in Bangladesh today after the execution of a top Islamist leader sparked riots and other protests, as the prime minister warned of a crackdown on the violence.

    Police said they opened fire after Islamist supporters torched houses and fought street battles with officers during a third day of unrest over the hanging of Abdul Quader Molla for mass murder during the 1971 war of independence.

    Three people were killed today in the northern town of Patgram and another seven died elsewhere overnight, police said, as Islamist supporters enforced a nationwide strike over the execution of Molla, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party.

    “Police fired rifles after Jamaat protesters torched at least 20 houses belonging to ruling party supporters,” government administrator Habibur Rahman told AFP of the violence in Patgram.

    “We have banned protests and gatherings in the area to prevent further violence,” he added.

    Molla’s execution on Thursday night triggered fresh violence in the impoverished country, already reeling from political unrest in the build-up to a deeply divisive national election scheduled for January 5.

    Twenty-two people are now known to have died and dozens more have been injured in the clashes since Thursday between outraged Jamaat activists and police and between the activists and supporters of the ruling Awami League (AL).

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned of strong action against the rioters, saying “We have shown enough patience. We will not tolerate anymore.”

    “People of the country know how to reply to these atrocities (the latest violence), we (government) also know how to respond to, control you (the rioters),” she told a rally late yesterday to commemorate those killed in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.

    Molla, 65, became the first person to be executed for his role in that war. Jamaat called the hanging a “political murder” and said it would avenge it.

    Convicted of rape, mass murder

    Molla had been found guilty in February by a much-criticised domestic tribunal of having been a leader of a pro-Pakistan militia that fought against the country’s independence and killed some of Bangladesh’s top professors, doctors, writers and journalists.

    He was convicted of rape, murder and mass murder, including the killing of more than 350 unarmed civilians. Prosecutors called him the “Butcher of Mirpur”, a Dhaka suburb where he committed most of the atrocities.

    Molla was one of five Islamists and other politicians sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal, which the opposition says is aimed at eradicating its leaders.

    The sentences have triggered riots and plunged the country into its worst violence since independence. Some 250 people have been killed in street protests since January, when the first verdicts were handed down.

    During today’s violence in Patgram, two Jamaat protesters were shot dead while protesters hacked to death a ruling party supporter, Rahman said, adding that the condition of two more AL supporters was “very critical”.

    Of the seven killed overnight, police said three died in the southern town of Companyganj, two in the northern town of Ramganj and one each in Narayanganj, outside the capital, and in the coastal town of Laxmipur.

    At Companyganj, an opposition bastion, police fired rifles to disperse at least 8,000 rampaging Jamaat supporters who torched four government offices and attacked officers with crude bombs and guns, a senior police officer said.

    In Ramganj, activists of Jamaat and its main ally, the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, attacked a convoy of ruling party lawmakers, leaving two people dead, sub-inspector Ershadul Alam told AFP.

    http://www.themalaymailonline.com/wo....mQmHCAfN.dpuf
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    Bangladesh sentences eight students to death for murder

    DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced eight students from the ruling party to death for the brutal murder of a young Hindu that was captured live on television in the capital.

    The special fast-track court found the Awami League (AL) activists guilty of chasing down Biswajit Das, 24, and hacking him with machetes while police stood by, in a crime that shocked the nation after its airing on TV.

    A further 13 activists from the AL’s student wing were sentenced to life in prison for murdering Das, whom prosecutors said they mistook for a supporter of opposition strikes that took place last December.

    Prosecutor S.M Rafiqul Islam confirmed eight students were handed a death sentence while “13 were given life in prison.”

    Only eight of the accused were present in the packed court to hear judge A.B.M Nizamul Huq read out the verdict. The rest, including two of those handed the death penalty, are still on the run and were tried in absentia.

    The victim’s elder brother Uttam Das said the family was happy with the verdict and called for the executions to be swiftly carried out.

    “We have got the justice and now we want quick execution of these criminals,” Das said.

    The trial was a major test for the secular AL amid allegations at the time that police, who are closely linked with the AL government, tried to cover up the identities of the activists.

    The sentences are likely to boost the AL’s popularity among the minority Hindu community ahead of January 5 general elections. Hindus make up around 10 percent of Bangladesh’s 153 million people and traditionally form a key AL support base.

    The AL students chased down Das after a small bomb exploded outside a state-run university, where they attended, during the strikes which they opposed.

    The mob suspected Das of planting the bomb, mistaking him for a protester from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the trial heard.

    Defence lawyer Mizanur Rahman Molla said he would appeal the conviction in a higher court.

    The verdicts came as the impoverished country reels from political turmoil ahead of the polls, with the main opposition and its allies boycotting the vote and holding deadly strikes and street protests. afp

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...12-2013_pg14_2
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    Death for 8 for killing official in Bangladesh

    A court in Bangladesh Tuesday awarded the death penalty to 8 people for killing a ward commissioner of Lalbagh area here 18 years ago.

    Hazi Mohammad Alim, commissioner of the ward, was shot and stabbed to death at Azimpur area in Dhaka Feb 8, 1996, reported The Daily Star.

    Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman of the 3rd additional metropolitan sessions judge's court pronounced the verdict on Md. Harun, Md. Siraj, Md. Shawkat, Md. Shiblu, Md. Kamal, Syed Ahmad and his 2 brothers, Rashid Ahmad and Farid Ahmad.

    (Source: The Business-Standard)
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    Bangladesh court sentences 8 to death for 2001 bombing

    Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced eight people to death and six others to life in prison for their roles in a bombing that took place at a New Year's celebration concert 13 years ago. Leader of banned Islamic group Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) [SATP backgrounder], Mufti Abdul Hannan, and a younger brother of former prime minister Khaleda Zia [Forbes profile; JURIST news archive] are among those facing the death penalty [AP report]. Before he announced the verdicts [AFP report], Judge Rahul Amin said that the attack was meant to cause panic and destabilization and that the Bengali New Year celebration is not tied to any religious or political group. Prosecutor Abdullah Abu told reporters that he was satisfied with the eight death sentences, but was not pleased with the six life sentences and plans to appeal. The bombing, which took place in downtown Dhaka during the Bengali New Year celebration in April 2001, left 10 people dead and many others wounded. According to HuJI, the celebrations, which involve concerts, dance festivals and rallies, are anti-Islamic. Defense lawyer Faruque Ahmed has expressed his intention to appeal, calling the verdicts politically motivated.

    The political situation in Bangladesh has been tense in recent months following the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's boycott of January elections that were marked by considerable violence and returned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to power. In May the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) [official website; JURIST news archive] officially charged [JURIST report] Abdul Jabbar, a former Jatiya Party lawmaker, with war crimes. In April Bangladesh's High Court ruled that former prime minister Khaleda Zia must stand trial on corruption charges for allegedly embezzling funds [JURIST reports] from a charitable trust named after her deceased husband, former president Ziaur Rahman. In March investigators moved [JURIST report] the Bangladesh government to ban Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami [party website; Global Security backgrounder] for its alleged involvement in war crimes occurring during the nation's 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War from Pakistan.

    http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/06...01-bombing.php
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    Father, two sons to die for murder in Netrakona

    A Netrakona court yesterday sentenced a man and his two sons to death for killing a man at Mirzapur village in Atpara upazila of the district in 2005, reports our correspondent.

    Those who have been awarded death penalty are Abdur Rahim, 50, and his sons Mokhles, 30, and Julhas, 32 of the village.

    According to the prosecution, Saidur Rahman, son of Faizur Rahman of the village, was hacked to death by Abdur Rahim and his two sons as a sequel to previous enmity near his house on February 28, 2005.

    Victim's father filed a murder case with Atpara Police Station on March 1, 2005, accusing Abdur Rahim and his two sons.

    After investigation, police submitted a charge sheet against the three to Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court on May 31 the same year.

    After examining the witnesses and evidence, Judge Abdul Hamid found them guilty and pronounced the verdict.

    In Chapainawabganj, a court here yesterday sentenced man to life imprisonment for killing his wife in Sadar upazila in 2007, according to UNB.

    The convict is Mahbul, 50, son of Lal Mohammad of Joindupur-Munnapara village in the upazila.

    The court also fined the convict Tk 10,000, in default, he is suffer another year in jail.

    According to the prosecution, Mahbul strangled his wife Surat Begum following an altercation over a family feud on August 26 and dumped the body in the Padma River.

    Later, victim's brother filed a case against Mahbul with Sadar Police Station. After examining witnesses and evidence, Additional District Judge Abdus Salam Khan handed down the verdict.

    http://www.thedailystar.net/father-t...etrakona-30373
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