Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali was brought from Kashimpur Jail 2 in Gazipur to the central jail in Dhaka yesterday.
Police and prison guards along with Quasem reached the Dhaka Central Jail in the afternoon after they left Kashimpur jail around noon, Senior Superintendent of Jail Forman Ali at Dhaka Central Jail told the Dhaka Tribune.
The International Crimes Tribunal 2 is to deliver its verdict on the Jamaat leader tomorrow on charges of crimes committed against humanity during the 1971 liberation war.
Quasem, who is considered one of Jamat’s top financiers, faced 14 war crimes charges, including murder, abduction and torture. He was indicted in September last year while his trial ended in May this year.
He was also the chief of Chittagong Al-Badr, an auxiliary force of Pakistani army, which, like other collaborators’ forces, directly opposed the Liberation of Bangladesh.
Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was the then chief of Al-Badr, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by International Crimes Tribunal 1 on charges of crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.