UNB, Dhaka :The Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday the appeal filed by condemned war crimes criminal Mir Quasem Ali against his death sentence.A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, set the date on January 6.Earlier, both the defence and the prosecution submitted the concise statements of the appeal to the Appellate Division.On May 28 and August 18, 2015, the SC asked the defence and prosecution tosubmit the concise statements of the appeal. On November 30, 2014, Mir Quasem Ali filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty awarded to him by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.On November 2 in the same year, the tribunal had condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali to death for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
