Death-row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali has told prison authorities that he will decide on seeking mercy from the president within Thursday. Kashimpur Jail Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told the Dhaka Tribune that they had met the convict in the morning. He said he would inform us within today.”Senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Quasem was handed down the maximum penalty for war crimes by a special tribunal in 2014. Quasem, one of the party’s top financiers, had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes tribunal controversial. His only option now is to seek mercy from the president after admitting to his crimes.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 01, 2016 06:22 UTC