Jamaat-e-Islami's former ameer Ghulam Azam filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the war crimes tribunal's verdict that sentenced him to 90 years.
His lawyer Jaynul Abedin submitted the appeal on behalf of Ghulam Azam at around 1pm on Monday.
According to the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973, the government, informant or complainant can appeal against tribunal verdicts.
The International Crimes Tribunal 1 handed 90 years imprisonment to Ghulam Azam, who was charged on five accounts, on July 15.
The tribunal found Ghulam Azam guilty on all five charges of conspiracy, incitement, planning, abetment and failure to prevent murder.
The charges were based on 61 incidents of crimes against humanity.
He was charged for five counts of conspiracy, three counts of planning, 28 counts of incitement, 22 counts of complicity and one count of murder and torture.
Ghulam was charged with crimes against humanity for killing 38 people, including: the Mohammadpur police station's then second officer sub-inspector Shiru Miah, his young son Anwar Kamal, and Dhaka University Bangla department student Nazrul Islam, who had been detained by Razakars on October 27, 1971.
They had been travelling to India for shelter, and were killed by Razakars at Ghulam's instruction in Kairatala village, Kasbaupazila, Brahmanbaria on November 21, 1971.
