Amnesty International has expressed apprehension that hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla will trigger reprisal attacks with country’s minority Hindu community bearing the brunt of it. It also termed the execution as a disgrace as the rights body is opposed to the death penalty in “all cases without exception.” “The execution of Abdul Quader [...]
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader known as the “Butcher of Mirpur”, making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country’s bloody 1971 war of independence. “The execution has been carried out,” deputy law minister Quamrul Islam told AFP, adding that Abdul Quader Molla, 65, [...]
December 12, 2013
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A Bangladeshi Islamist leader convicted of mass murder and rape during the country’s 1971 independence war will be hanged just after midnight Tuesday, the prisons chief said. “Yes,” Main Uddin Khandaker told AFP when asked whether Abdul Quader Molla, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islamiparty, would be executed after midnight(1800 GMT Monday).On Sunday, a tribunal [...]
December 10, 2013
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