bdnews24.com :
Family members of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader who has been imprisoned for life for 1971 war crimes, have visited him at Kashimpur prison in Gazipur.
Proshanta Kumar Banik, Superintendent of Central Jail-2 at Kashimpur, told bdnews24.com that six members of Sayedee’s family arrived around 11:30am on Friday. Sayedee’s wife Saleha Sayedee, sons Shamim Sayedee and Nasim Islam, daughter-in-law Sayeda Sumaiya and
two grandchildren spent around half an hour with him.
The Jamaat leader’s trial started on Oct 3, 2011, at the International Crimes Tribunal that charged him with murder, rape, loot and forcible conversion of Hindus during the War of Independence.
The tribunal handed him down the death sentence on Feb 28, 2013. Sayedee later appealed against the death sentence, seeking acquittal. The Appellate Division on Sep 17, 2014, reduced death sentence to ‘imprisonment until death’. The State then filed a petition to review the apex court’s verdict, the first war crimes case in which it seeks to maintain the tribunal’s verdict. Sayedee has also filed a petition to review the verdict that reduced his punishment. Both petitions are yet to be heard by the top appeals court.
Family members of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader who has been imprisoned for life for 1971 war crimes, have visited him at Kashimpur prison in Gazipur.
Proshanta Kumar Banik, Superintendent of Central Jail-2 at Kashimpur, told bdnews24.com that six members of Sayedee’s family arrived around 11:30am on Friday. Sayedee’s wife Saleha Sayedee, sons Shamim Sayedee and Nasim Islam, daughter-in-law Sayeda Sumaiya and
two grandchildren spent around half an hour with him.
The Jamaat leader’s trial started on Oct 3, 2011, at the International Crimes Tribunal that charged him with murder, rape, loot and forcible conversion of Hindus during the War of Independence.
The tribunal handed him down the death sentence on Feb 28, 2013. Sayedee later appealed against the death sentence, seeking acquittal. The Appellate Division on Sep 17, 2014, reduced death sentence to ‘imprisonment until death’. The State then filed a petition to review the apex court’s verdict, the first war crimes case in which it seeks to maintain the tribunal’s verdict. Sayedee has also filed a petition to review the verdict that reduced his punishment. Both petitions are yet to be heard by the top appeals court.
