{"id":55438,"date":"2019-10-31T08:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55438"},"modified":"2019-10-31T08:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T08:11:52","slug":"sc-upholds-war-criminal-atm-azhars-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55438","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds war criminal ATM Azhar\u2019s death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"wp-image-55439 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/095807y-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/095807y-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/095807y-696x416.jpg 696w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/095807y-703x420.jpg 703w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/095807y.jpg 763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/>Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A four-member Appellate bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, handed down the verdict on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earlier, the Appellate Division set October 31 for delivering the judgment on an appeal filed by the war criminal challenging his death sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on June 18 started hearing the appeal filed by ATM Azharul Islam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first tribunal on December 30, 2014, sentenced then assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami to death for his crimes against humanity in Rangpur during the War of Liberation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tribunal found him guilty in five of the total six charges it had framed against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Azhar filed the appeal against his conviction on January 28, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. A four-member Appellate bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, handed down the verdict on Thursday. Earlier, the Appellate Division set October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55438\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC upholds war criminal ATM Azhar\u2019s death penalty - Bornomalanews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. 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