MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) — Bangladesh's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence handed to a former leader of the biggest Islamist party in the country Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the national BSS news agency reported Monday.
62-year old Kamaruzzaman, who was a leader of Jamaat (Bangladesh's Islamist Party), has been prosecuted for war crimes committed during the war on independence from Pakistan in 1971. His crimes include killing as many as 164 innocent civilians in the northern Indian border-town of Sohagpur. according to the news agency.
A four-member session of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (ADSC) headed by Justice Sinha delivered its affirmation of the International Crimes Tribunal's (ICT) May 2013 verdict in the morning, according to the BSS.
Kamaruzzaman was arrested on July, 13, 2010 and was found guilty for committing crimes against humanity. He has been kept in jail since then.
On December 12, 2013, another Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mullah was executed for committing war crimes. More than 3 million people were killed during the conflict, according to the Bangladesh Government.
