DHAKA: Supreme Court fixed July 25 for hearing on review plea of Jamaat financer Mir Quasem Ali against his death penalty for war crimes.

Chamber Judge Hasan Foyej Siddique passed the order on Tuesday (June 21).

In his review petition, Mir Quasem has sought his acquittal showing 14 grounds in 86-page review petition.

On June 6, the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty for the crimes against humanity during the war of independence in 1971. The Appellate Division on March 8 upheld the death penalty.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 in a verdict had sentenced Quasem, Al-Badr chief in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on November 2, 2014. On November 30, 2014, he had filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.

Among the total 14 charges brought against Mir Quasem for war crimes, the tribunal convicted him on 10 charges and acquitted him from four.

BDST: 1339 HRS, June 21, 2016
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