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| Mufti Hannan to seek clemency |
| 2017-03-23 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. B) leader Mufti Hannan will seek presidential pardon. Hannan informed it to the Kashimpur Jail authorities when the full verdict was read out to him around 10:30am on Wednesday. "Hannan has told us that he will file the petition seeking presidential clemency with due process through his lawyer," Mizanur Rahman, jail superintendent, told the Dhaka Tribune. Another death-row convict Sharif Shahedul Alam, Hannan’s aide, would also seek clemency, he added. The other convict is Md Delwar Hossain. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division released the full text of its verdict reconfirming death penalties handed to Mufti Hannan and two accomplices for a failed liquidation attempt on the then British high commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury. The full verdict reached to Kashimpur Jail on Tuesday night. Three people were killed and Anwar sustained injuries in the grenade attack carried out during his visit to Shahjalal Shrine in Sylhet city on May 21, 2004. The commissioner reported being hit in the stomach by a bomb, which then fell on the ground near the foot of the district chief and went kaboom!"with a big bang." Sixty-nine others were also injured. The UK foreign secretary at the time, Jack Straw, said he was "deeply shocked" by the attack. The HuJIB murderous Moslem group was formed in 1992 and claims to have carried out at least 14 attacks, killing more than 100 people in the pursuit of establishing Shariah Law in Bangladesh. A Sylhet court in December 2008 sentenced the trio to death and two others to life-time imprisonment for their roles in the attack. The High Court upheld the sentences in February 2016. The same month, the death-row convicts appealed to the Appellate Division but to no avail. Their review petitions filed challenging the Appellate Division verdict were also rejected. Hannan was also sentenced to death for the 2001 Ramna Batamul bombing, in which ten people were killed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I'm sure the mufti's a fine fellow and all, but I can't get past that name. Then again, he steered clear of the Kennedys, so there's that. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-23 07:04 |