bdnews24.com: The verdict on an appeal by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Md Mujahid against his death sentence awarded by a war crimes tribunal will be out on June 16. A four-member appeals bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha set the date on Wednesday after concluding the hearing. On July 17, 2013, the second war crimes tribunal sentenced the Jamaat secretary general to death after finding him guilty of five of the seven war crime charges levelled against him. The former Al-Badr commander moved the Appellate Division on Aug 11 the same year, challenging the verdict that condemned him to be ‘hanged by the neck’. He was found guilty of unleashing his ruthless militia on unarmed intellectuals and for mass murders he had planned and executed during the 1971 Liberation War.
