Lawyers to meet Mujahid Friday

Lawyers of condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid is scheduled to meet him at Dhaka Central Jail on Friday morning.

Earlier in the day, a five-member team of lawyers sought the jail authorities' permission to meet the Jamaat leader to decide the next course of action.

The jail authorities has fixed 10am Friday for the meeting, said Mujahid's lawyer Advocate Gazi MH Tamim.

Family meets Mujahid in jail

Family meets Mujahid in jail

The other members of the team are--Nazrul Islam, Moshiul Alam, Saifur Rahman and Motiur Rahman Akand.

The Supreme Court has upheld its previous verdict on condemned war criminal, rejecting his plea for reviewing death penalty for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

On July 17, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal 2 ordered to hang Mujahid by the neck for the massacre of intellectuals including scientists, academics and journalists, and his involvement in the murder and torture of Hindus during the war.

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He was found guilty in five out of the seven charges and sentenced to death in two of them.

The Jamaat leader was arrested on June 29, 2010 on charges of hurting religious sentiment and defying court orders. He was later shown arrested in the war crimes case on August 8. The tribunal indicted him on June 21, 2012.

Mujahid appealed against the tribunal verdict on August 11, 2013 and the hearing began on April 29 this year. The hearing continued for nine working days and ended on May 27.

On June 16, 2015, the Appellate Division delivered its judgement, upholding death for the Jamaat secretary general.