UNB, Dhaka :The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is likely to hear on Tuesday review petitions of condemned war crimes convicts Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury against its verdicts upholding their death penalties for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.Earlier, on November 2, the four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, fixed November 17 for the hearing on review petitions of the two condemned war crimes convicts.Besides, the bench turned down a plea filed by the BNP leader for taking testimony of several people in connection with the offenses he was convicted of by the International Crimes Tribunal.On October 20, SC Chamber Judge Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain fixed November 2 for the hearing on the review petitions of Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.Mojaheed and Salauddin filed the review petitions with the SC against its verdicts that upheld their death penalties for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war on October 14. The SC on September 30 released the full verdicts awarding death penalty to them for their crimes against humanity during the war, clearing the way for the execution of the judgments. The court on June 16 upheld the death sentence awarded by the ICT-2 to Mojaheed for killing intellectuals during the war.
