DHAKA: Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Wednesday has cleared the death sentence for convicted war criminal and Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami, sources said.
According to the special tribunal, Nizami orchestrated the massacre of Bangladesh’s best brains in 1971 using his ruthless Al-Badr militia.
Nizami is the third former minister to be on death row over war crimes committed in 1971.
The warrant has been issued on Wednesday by a four-member ‘top appeals court’ bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
The other senior judges on the bench were Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.
“Nizami can file review petition to the Supreme Court within 15 days as per law,” said a senior judge of the Supreme Court.
According to sources, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) had ordered hanging of Nizami on Oct 29, 2014, for murders and rapes in Pabna and mass killing of intellectuals during the War of Independence.
