The Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to accept Mollah’s petition for review of his death sentence.
A Bangladesh appellate court was discussing Wednesday morning apetition for review of death sentence on Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary general of the country’s Jamaat-e-Islam, after he won a stay of execution hours before he was set to be taken to the gallows.
The Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court was expected to decide whether to accept Mollah’s petition for review of his death sentence for war crimes he allegedly committed during the independence war from Pakistan in 1971.
The appellate court said Mollah’s execution was delayed until further notice.
In February this year, Bangladesh’s International War Crimes Tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison but the country’s Supreme Court later increased the sentence to death penalty.
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