Nizami shifted to Dhaka jail
UNB
Condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami was shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur yesterday night, reports UNB. Law enforcers along with Nizami started for the capital from Kashimpur Central Jail part-2 around 10:30pm, said Jailer of the Dhaka Central Jail Nesar Alam. They reached the Dhaka Central Jail around 11:55pm, Nesar added. Earlier on Thursday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court rejected the petition of Nizami seeking review of its earlier verdict upholding the death penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal. On March 15, the ICT issued a death warrant for Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 after the apex court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty. On January 6, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by the Chief Justice, upheld the death sentence of the Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer. The Appellate Division upheld the ICT-1 order sentencing Nizami to death for the wartime crimes, including genocide and murder of intellectuals. The apex court upheld his death penalty on three of the four counts of charges while he was acquitted on the rest one. On October 29, 2014, the ICT-1 sentenced Nizami to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
