Bangladesh has hanged an Islamist party official sentenced to death
for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war
against Pakistan.
According to The Associated Press news agency , Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami, refused to seek presidential clemency, as he became the second person put to death since tribunals were set up more than four years ago to try suspected war criminals.
Qamaruzzaman's family members visited him for the last time in Dhaka's Central Jail, with security tight outside the facility, his lawyer Shishir Manir said.
By Saturday evening, the concerned officials to execute Qamaruzzaman had entered the jail, a senior prison official told The Associated Press news agency on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
TV stations reported that a grave had already been dug in Qamaruzzaman's ancestral home outside Dhaka, the capital.
According to The Associated Press news agency , Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami, refused to seek presidential clemency, as he became the second person put to death since tribunals were set up more than four years ago to try suspected war criminals.
Qamaruzzaman's family members visited him for the last time in Dhaka's Central Jail, with security tight outside the facility, his lawyer Shishir Manir said.
By Saturday evening, the concerned officials to execute Qamaruzzaman had entered the jail, a senior prison official told The Associated Press news agency on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
TV stations reported that a grave had already been dug in Qamaruzzaman's ancestral home outside Dhaka, the capital.
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