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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's sentence was unfair, the wife of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid, Tamanna-e-Jahan, has urged the government to ensure fair trial.
Tamanna made the appeal to President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
, Chief Justice SK Sinha and authorities concerned after meeting her husband at the Dhaka Central Jail yesterday.
"I expect a fair trial...and nothing else. My husband has been sentenced unfairly and I hope it will not happen during the review petition hearing," she said.
The family members met Mujahid in the morning.
A top al-Badr commander during the 1971 Liberation War, Mujahid, 69, has a week to seek a review of the final death verdict handed down by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. He decided to file the petition on October 3, two days after the jail authorities read out the death warrant to Mujahid.
If his review petition is scrapped, Mujahid can seek presidential clemency admitting the crimes he had committed during the war.
"It was a regular meeting. Five members of the family entered the jail at 10:50am and left the place after 30 minutes," Senior Jail Superintendent Jahangir Kabir told the Dhaka Tribune.
Tamanna was accompanied by Mujahid's sons Ali Ahmed Mabrur, Tazdid and Takrir, and daughter Tamrin.
Mujahid's lawyer Shishir Monir told news hounds that his client had directed the counsels to take preparation for filing of the review petition.