Additional IG Prisons Col Iqbal Hasan entered the jail around 1:30pm and the DIG prisons at 4pm. The International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Jamaat executive council member Mir Quasem to death in 2014 for war crimes. Jamaat’s assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla was the first to be hanged for 1971 war crimes on Dec 12, 2013. Another assistant secretary general of the party, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, was executed on Apr 11, 2015. The jail authorities executed the death sentences of Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and BNP Standing Committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on Nov 21 last year.

Source: bd News24 September 03, 2016 14:15 UTC