Gonojagoron Moncho has demanded the immediate execution of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld the death penalty to war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Moncho spokesperson Imran H Sarkar made the demand immediately after the verdict was pronounced by the four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Justice SK Sinha on Wednesday morning.
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“The evil force and conspiracy against the country has been destroyed through the verdict," Sarkar said.
He also demanded quick execution of the death penalty Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed.
Earlier in the day, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld a war tribunal’s death sentence to BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
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The International Crimes Tribunal 1 sentenced him to death on four charges. The Supreme Court upheld the judgement. The top court also upheld Salauddin Quader's conviction in four other charges.
On October 1, 2013, the tribunal found notorious war criminal Salauddin, 66, guilty of nine of the 23 charges brought against him by the prosecution.
Salauddin, who had served then prime minister Khaleda Zia as her parliamentary affairs adviser during 2001-06, appealed against the tribunal verdict on October 29, 2013.
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He was arrested on December 16, 2010, and shown arrested in war crimes case on December 19 the same year. The tribunal indicted him on April 4, 2012.