Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed July 25 for hearing the review petition of death row convict Mir Quasem Ali, seeking review of the Supreme Court judgment that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Hasan Foez Siddique fixed the date after hearing the review petition.
Earlier on the day, the government submitted a petition requesting the apex court to hold an early hearing on the review petition. Counsels of Mir Quasem Ali submitted the review petition to the apex court seeking acquittal of all the seven charges brought against him.
The former Al-Badr commander was found guilty by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) and was awarded death penalty on November 2 in 2014. The apex court upheld the tribunal judgement on March 8, 2016.
On November 30, 2014, he filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.
The top court released the full verdict and sent it to the ICT, which issued the death warrant before forwarding it to the jail authority. Mir Quasem, detained in Kashimpur prison in Gazipur district since his arrest in 2012, had been transferred to Dhaka Central Jail on Monday.
Police arrested him on June 17, 2012 from his ‘Naya Diganta’ newspaper office less than two hours after his arrest warrant was issued. Once the review petition is resolved the war crimes convict will have the opportunity to seek a presidential clemency. If the President rejects the mercy petition, the government then orders the jail authority to execute his death penalty.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed July 25 for hearing the review petition of death row convict Mir Quasem Ali, seeking review of the Supreme Court judgment that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Hasan Foez Siddique fixed the date after hearing the review petition.
Earlier on the day, the government submitted a petition requesting the apex court to hold an early hearing on the review petition. Counsels of Mir Quasem Ali submitted the review petition to the apex court seeking acquittal of all the seven charges brought against him.
The former Al-Badr commander was found guilty by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) and was awarded death penalty on November 2 in 2014. The apex court upheld the tribunal judgement on March 8, 2016.
On November 30, 2014, he filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.
The top court released the full verdict and sent it to the ICT, which issued the death warrant before forwarding it to the jail authority. Mir Quasem, detained in Kashimpur prison in Gazipur district since his arrest in 2012, had been transferred to Dhaka Central Jail on Monday.
Police arrested him on June 17, 2012 from his ‘Naya Diganta’ newspaper office less than two hours after his arrest warrant was issued. Once the review petition is resolved the war crimes convict will have the opportunity to seek a presidential clemency. If the President rejects the mercy petition, the government then orders the jail authority to execute his death penalty.
