The family members of death-row convict Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid have visited the Dhaka Central Jail to meet the war criminal.
His lawyer Shishir Monir told journalists: “Mujahid’s three sons, daughter, and wife entered the jail at 10:40am on Friday and left around 11:20am.”
Mujahid has a week to seek a review of the final death verdict for war crimes. Earlier on October 3, the Jamaat leader decided filing of a petition seeking review of the top court’s final verdict that upheld his death sentence.
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"He [Mujahid] is mentally strong and directed us to take preparation to file a review petition," his counsel Shishir Monir said after meeting the Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general at the Dhaka Central Jail.
The jail authorities read out the death warrant to Mujahid on October 1.
According to jail sources, Mujahid remained calm when the warrant had been read out to him. The former technocrat minister said that he would convey his opinion to the lawyers.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court released the full text of verdicts in the appeal cases of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mujahid and BNP leader Salauddin on September 30.
Social welfare minister (technocrat) during the BNP-Jamaat alliance’s 2011-06 tenure, Mujahid was sentenced to death by the tribunal on July 17, 2013.
Al-Badr commander Mujahid, 69, filed an appeal on August 12 the same year seeking acquittal from all the charges.
The top court on June 16 upheld his capital punishment given by a war crimes tribunal in 2013.