Ex-leader of Bangladesh ruling party sentenced to death for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (NsNewsWire) –A local leader of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 announced verdict Monday.
The ICT-1 awarded Mobarak Hossain the capital punishment for killing 33 people in Brahmanbaria district, some 109 east of capital Dhaka, on Oct. 24, 1971 while life term imprisonment for abducting and torturing one Abdul Khaleque on Nov. 11 the same year.
The 64-year-old, now behind the bars, served as the AL organizing secretary of a union parishad, the lowest tier of administrative unit in Bangladesh, for 16 years till 2012.
While serving as a member of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1971, he was involved in murder, abduction, confinement, torture and loot, according to the charges pressed against him last year. Enditem