Bangladesh upholds Islamist tycoon’s death sentence
DHAKA:
File photo shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem
Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court
in Dhaka. A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for Bangladesh’s
largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing his final
appeal yesterday, against a death sentence from a controversial war
crimes tribunal. — AFP
