{"id":3868,"date":"2014-11-02T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2014-11-02T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T06:41:20","slug":"bangladesh-jamaat-leader-given-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/11\/02\/3868\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Jamaat leader given death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/obaidu%20hassan.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;\">A top leader of Bangladesh&#8217;s main religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the country&#8217;s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Justice Obaidul Hassan, chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal 2, delivered the verdict to Mir Quasem Ali, 62, known as a key financier of the anti-liberation party, al-Badr, on Sunday in the capital, Dhaka.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bangladesh&#8217;s local online newspaper, The Daily Star, said that 12 out of 14 charges against Ali were proved by the tribunal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sentence came about six months after completion of the trial proceedings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The government boosted security in and around the court premises to prevent violence from the supporters of Jamaat who have announced 48-hour nationwide shutdown, protesting the sentencing to death of another Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Six other Jamaat leaders have already been sentenced and two more &#8211; Abdus Subhan and ATM Azharul Islam &#8211; are being tried.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Critics say the government has abused the process as a political tool to target the two biggest opposition parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year, more than 100 people have been killed in protests over the tribunal&#8217;s verdicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<strong><em> Aljazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top leader of Bangladesh&#8217;s main religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the country&#8217;s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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