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Bangladesh Court Upholds Islamist Leader's Death Sentence

Bangladesh's highest court has rejected an appeal by a senior Islamist leader, upholding his death sentence for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war for independence with Pakistan. Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha announced the decision Tuesday against Mir Quasem Ali. The 63-year-old is a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party and was convicted in 2014 on eight charges that included the abduction of a young man and his killing in a torture cell. Bangladesh says...

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