Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday called a dawn-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday (March 9) protesting the Supreme Court judgment that upheld the death penalty of condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali. The party’s acting ameer Moqbul Ahmad, in a press statement, announced the countrywide daylong hartal hours after the apex court’s order. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning upheld the death penalty of Mir Quasem Ali for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, pronounced the judgment. The other judges of the bench were Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Bazlur Rahman. The apex court upheld the punishment on one count of charge and acquitted Mir Quasem on another. — Dhaka, Mar 8 (UNB)
