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Bangladesh hangs top Jamaat-e-Islami leader for 1971 war crimes

Bangladesh’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader and media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali was hanged on Saturday, the sixth Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali was hanged in Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital. “He was hanged at 10.35 PM (local time),” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told PTI. His execution Read More