MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Bangladeshi Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal against death sentence imposed on Mir Quasem Ali, a tycoon and financier of Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, over war crimes, local media reported.
The verdict was pronounced by a five-member Appellate Division panel, the Newsnext news outlet said.
Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds the death sentence for Jamaat e Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for 1971 War crimes: Reuters
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Mir Quasem Ali was convicted of wartime crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Quasem Ali was sentenced to death by a special war crimes tribunal in 2014, but filed appeal against the court ruling.
The war crime tribunal was established in 2010 to prosecute criminals who assisted the Pakistani army to suppress the struggle for independence in Bangladesh.
A civil war broke out in Pakistan in 1971, which was divided in two parts at the time, after West Pakistan launched a military operation in East Pakistan that was seeking independence. The death toll among Bangladeshi people is estimated at about 3 million lives.
