Welcoming the verdict, Gonojagoron Moncho has begun a sit-in program in the capital’s Shahbagh demanding the quick execution of the death penalty handed over to war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
Moncho spokesperson Imran H Sarkersaid: “We will stay at Shahbagh till Kamaruzzaman’s execution as there is no bar to execute him now.”
“We welcome the verdict. The protest of the Gonojagoron Moncho and the general public has become successful. We demand its execution soon.”
Meanwhile, Gonojagoron Moncho members brought out joyous rallies at Shahbagh in the capital after the Supreme Court order.
Earlier in the day, The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of condemned war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for killing 144 villagers at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the Liberation War.
Kamaruzzaman’s lawyers filed the petition on March 5 seeking review of the death penalty upheld by the Appellate Division on November 3 last year.
The International Crimes Tribunal 2 had sentenced the al-Badr leader to death on May 9, 2013 for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
He is the second war crimes convict to file a review petition with the top court. Another Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla was executed on December 12, 2013.
The full text of the Appellate Division judgment was released on February 18 and the International Crimes Tribunal the following day issued a warrant to execute the death sentence.
On November 3, 2014, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the tribunal verdict that had awarded death sentence to the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Kamaruzzaman was shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur after the SC upheld his death penalty.
