Nizami to be executed as per rules: Home minister

Family meets the Jamaat leader in jail

The death penalty of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami will be carried out by accomplishing all legal procedures, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. The minister made this statement while talking to reporters at his residence in the capital yesterday. Jamaat-e-Islami chief (ameer) Motiur Rahman Nizami lost the last legal battle on Thursday, as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed his review petition. This has paved the way for his execution for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. After Thursday’s order, Nizami, now 73, is left only with the last option of seeking presidential clemency. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1), on October 29, 2014, had handed down capital punishment to Nizami on four charges of war crimes, including murders of intellectuals during the war. Nizami was also awarded life imprisonment in connection with four other charges. Nizami filed an appeal before the Supreme Court on November 23, 2014, challenging the death sentence and claiming that he was innocent. He sought to be cleared of the charges.
The SC, on January 6 this year, upheld his death sentence on three charges and awarded him life imprisonment on two other charges. Nizami filed the review plea on March 30 this year. He filed the petition 14 days after the SC released the full judgment. Nizami was the president of Jamaat's students’ wing, Islami Chhatra Sangha, from 1966 to September 1971, and ex-officio chief of Al-Badr. Our Gazipur correspondent adds: Nizami’s family members met him at the Kashimpur jail in Gazipur.
Nizami’s wife Begum Shamsunnahar Nizami, sons barrister Nazib Momen alias Nazibur Rahman and Naimur Rahman, and daughters-in-law Saleya and Raiyan, and his daughter Khadiza Mohsina, went to the jail around 11:30am on Friday. The superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail (Part 2), Proshanta Kumar Bonik, said, “Nizami’s family members came to Kashimpur Central Jail on Friday morning and appealed for a meeting with him. The jail authorities made arrangements for them to meet Nizami in a room of the jail later. The family members were given 40 minutes to talk to Nizami.” On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Nizami, rejecting his appeal to review his death penalty. Nizami filed the petition on March 29, seeking his acquittal. The ICT issued his death warrant on March 15, after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court released its full verdict.
The war criminal was convicted in October 2014 by the tribunal for the atrocities he had committed during the 1971 Liberation War. He was found guilty of involvement in mass murders and rapes of Bangalis in Pabna and massacre of intellectuals in Dhaka. The ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami and a former minister, Nizami had also been sentenced to death in the sensational 10-truck arms haul case.

 

Nizami to be executed as per rules: Home minister

Family meets the Jamaat leader in jail

The death penalty of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami will be carried out by accomplishing all legal procedures, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. The minister made this statement while talking to reporters at his residence in the capital yesterday. Jamaat-e-Islami chief (ameer) Motiur Rahman Nizami lost the last legal battle on Thursday, as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed his review petition. This has paved the way for his execution for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. After Thursdays order, Nizami, now 73, is left only with the last option of seeking presidential clemency. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1), on October 29, 2014, had handed down capital punishment to Nizami on four charges of war crimes, including murders of intellectuals during the war. Nizami was also awarded life imprisonment in connection with four other charges. Nizami filed an appeal before the Supreme Court on November 23, 2014, challenging the death sentence and claiming that he was innocent. He sought to be cleared of the charges. The SC, on January 6 this year, upheld his death sentence on three charges and awarded him life imprisonment on two other charges. Nizami filed the review plea on March 30 this year. He filed the petition 14 days after the SC released the full judgment. Nizami was the president of Jamaats students wing, Islami Chhatra Sangha, from 1966 to September 1971, and ex-officio chief of Al-Badr. Our Gazipur correspondent adds: Nizamis family members met him at the Kashimpur jail in Gazipur. Nizamis wife Begum Shamsunnahar Nizami, sons barrister Nazib Momen alias Nazibur Rahman and Naimur Rahman, and daughters-in-law Saleya and Raiyan, and his daughter Khadiza Mohsina, went to the jail around 11:30am on Friday. The superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail (Part 2), Proshanta Kumar Bonik, said, Nizamis family members came to Kashimpur Central Jail on Friday morning and appealed for a meeting with him. The jail authorities made arrangements for them to meet Nizami in a room of the jail later. The family members were given 40 minutes to talk to Nizami. On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Nizami, rejecting his appeal to review his death penalty. Nizami filed the petition on March 29, seeking his acquittal. The ICT issued his death warrant on March 15, after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court released its full verdict. The war criminal was convicted in October 2014 by the tribunal for the atrocities he had committed during the 1971 Liberation War. He was found guilty of involvement in mass murders and rapes of Bangalis in Pabna and massacre of intellectuals in Dhaka. The ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami and a former minister, Nizami had also been sentenced to death in the sensational 10-truck arms haul case.