DHAKA: War crimes convict Ghulam Azam died on Thursday night.

The 92-year-old former Jamaat-e-Islami chief breathed his last at city’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) around 10:15pm.

His personal manager Abul Kalam Azad confirmed the death to banglanews.

He said that earlier Ghulam Azam was kept on life support at BSMMU from the evening.

On July 15 last year, International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief to 90 years in prison for masterminding crimes against humanity, genocide and other offences during liberation war.

On January 11, 2012, he was arrested in the war crimes case, after the tribunal took charges against him into cognizance.

Later on January 5, 2012, the prosecution brought 62 specific charges against Ghulam Azam.

On May 13, 2012, the tribunal indicted him on five charges of crimes against humanity for murdering and torturing of unarmed people, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide in 1971.

BDST: 2300 HRS, OCT 23, 2014