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| Release of Mollah verdict's full text any day |
| 2013-11-25 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The full text of the Supreme Court judgment that awarded death penalty to war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah is likely to be released in a few days, as judges have completed writing their shares of it. On September 17, the apex court sentenced the Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader to death for committing crimes against humanity during the country's Liberation War in 1971, overruling the judgement of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that awarded him life imprisonment. The SC sources said all the five apex court judges, who delivered the verdict by majority view, have completed writing their parts of the judgement. Now, those will be compiled and then a full-text verdict will be released, according to sources. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star that the government will execute the SC verdict immediately after the certified copy will be released as per the provisions of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973. |
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