Jail authorities have asked the family of death-row war criminal Mohammad Kamaruzzaman to meet him. His son Hasan Iqbal told that they had been asked to come at the Dhaka Central Jail between 4pm and 5pm on Saturday. “The jail authorities called us around 1pm. They told us to meet him.” The International Crimes Tribunal on May 9, 2013, sentenced Al-Badr Commander of Mymensingh Kamaruzzaman to death for his atrocities committed during the Liberation War in 1971. The Appellate Division had also upheld the sentence, describing his crimes as being “worse than the Nazis”. Then, on last Monday, Chief Justice SK Sinha-led appellate court rejected his plea for a review of the death penalty. After that, the Jamaat-e-Islami senior assistant secretary general’s family met him in prison on Apr 6 following a call from the jail authorities. On Apr 8, the final verdict of the top appeals court reached the jail and was then read out to Kamaruzzaman.—bdnews24.com
