Mir Quasem files review plea against death penalty

Condemned war criminal Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali on Sunday filed a review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict upholding his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, reports the UNB.

 

Barrister Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, son of Mir Quasem, who submitted the review petition with the Appellate Division in the morning, said there were 14 grounds mentioned seeking release of the convict in the war crimes case.

 

On June 6, the International Crimes Tribunal issued the death warrant for the Jamaat-e-Islami leader hours after the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty.

 

Earlier on 8 March, the Appellate Division upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

 

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 in a verdict had sentenced Mir Quasem Ali, Al-Badr chief in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on November 2, 2014.

 

On November 30, 2014, Mir Quasem filed an appeal before the SC challenging the death penalty.

 

Among the total 14 charges brought against Mir Quasem for war crimes, the tribunal convicted him on 10 counts of charges and acquitted him from four.

 

The 64-year-old top Jamaat-e-Islami financier was president of the Chittagong city unit of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of the party, till November 6, 1971.

 

He was then made general secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra Sangha.