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Bangladesh Islamist loses appeal against hanging
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Bangladeshi Islamist leader lost his final appeal Monday against a death sentence for overseeing a massacre during the 1971 independence war, sparking protests by his supporters that left one dead.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior figure in the Jamaat-e-Islami party, could now be hanged within days or even hours for the slaughter at the so-called “Village of Widows”.
His lawyer Shishir Manir said authorities have asked Kamaruzzaman’s family to meet him at Dhaka’s main jail later Monday “for an emergency meeting”.
“It seems the authorities are making preparations to execute him,” Manir told AFP.
— AFP
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