Source: BD news 24/ The Daily Star

Abdul Quader Molla, whose ‘lighter’ life sentence had triggered ‘Bangla Spring’ from Shahbagh, will hang as the Supreme Court has found him guilty of previously unproven murders and rape during the 1971 war.

‘Koshai Quader’ or ‘Butcher Quader’, as he was known then, will be hanged till death, the top court ordered in the first case of final verdict on 1971 war crimes cases,

The highest appeals court enhanced his life sentence to the maximum punishment possible on a prosecution appeal, disposing Molla’s plea to acquit him of the charges.

People, who had expressed ‘dissatisfaction’ over his life imprisonment seven months ago, hailed the death penalty saying it served the Jamaat Assistant Secretary General right for his war-time atrocities.

Jamaat-e-Islami, which is described in one ICT verdict as a ‘criminal outfit’, rampaged through parts of Bangladesh, taking out processions, detonating crude bombs, fighting pitched battles with police, set afire police vehicles and called a 48-hour nationwide shutdown starting Wednesday. The party has termed the verdict a ‘wrong’ one.

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BBC World News:

Bangladesh: Abdul Kader Mullah gets death penalty for war crimes

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Islamist leader against his jail term for war crimes and sentenced him to death.

In February Abdul Kader Mullah, of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was convicted by a special tribunal of crimes during the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.

LA Times: 

In Bangladesh, death penalty for Islamist leader sparks riots

NEW DELHI — The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down the death penalty to an opposition leader with the country’s main Islamist party, who was convicted of committing mass murder during the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.

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