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           Bangladesh Court Upholds Islamist Leader's Death Sentence

   by VOA News

   Bangladesh's highest court has rejected an appeal by a senior Islamist
   leader, upholding his death sentence for war crimes committed during
   the country's 1971 war for independence with Pakistan.

   Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha announced the decision Tuesday
   against Mir Quasem Ali.

   The 63-year-old is a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party and was
   convicted in 2014 on eight charges that included the abduction of a
   young man and his killing in a torture cell.

   Bangladesh says local collaborators and Pakistani soldiers killed 3
   million people during the fight for independence, which Jamaat-e-Islami
   opposed.

   Several other Islamist leaders have already been executed for war
   crimes.  Jamaat-e-Islami and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist
   Party have criticized the government's war crimes tribunal as
   politically motivated.
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