The appeal hearing, adjourned on August 24, was at number 10 of the cause list published on the apex court’s website yesterday. On that day, the five-member Appellate Division panel headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha partly heard the review petition and said it would be on the top of the cause list today. A top Jamaat-e-Islami leader and financier, Quasem filed the review petition after the apex court published its full verdict and the International Crimes Tribunal issued the death warrant against him on June 6. The war crimes tribunal sentenced Quasem, now 64, to death on November 3, 2014 on two charges including killing seven people after abduction in Chittagong. According to the government, Quasem has also spent a large amount of money to appoint US-based lobbyists to make the war crimes trials controversial.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 27, 2016 18:56 UTC