Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded release of its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death sentence scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday.
Jamaat-e-Islami acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmed made the demand in a press release on Tuesday.
According to the press release, Jamaat-e-Islami termed the long term imprisonment and verdict to its Nayeb-e-Ameer and world renowned religious scholar Allama Delwar Hossain Sayedee as tyrannical government’s wish.
“The government has filed false and fabricated case against Sayedee in line with the false allegation of committing crimes against humanity to attain their ill political interest,” reads the release.
“During this trial procedure, the prosecution has taken various types of falsehood. We truly believe that the tribunal did not make justice to Allama Delwar Hossain Sayedee offering him death penalty,” it added.
Jamat urged to all Muslims of Bangladesh and world to pray for Sayedee.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to deliver its judgement on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death sentence in war crimes case on Wednesday, according to the Supreme Court website.
The five-member bench led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain will give the order, says the cause list of court 3.
The rest four justices are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury.
The tribunal handed down the death penalty to Sayedee on February 28 last year.
He appealed against the sentence seeking acquittal on March 28.
The government also lodged an appeal to specify the sentence in all the six charges that were proved at the tribunal.
