to death for crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of liberation from Pakistan, a court official said.
A prosecution lawyer, Ziad al Malum said that a special tribunal handed down the death penalty to Sakhawat Hossain, a former Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party lawmaker, for the killing, raping and torturing of unarmed civilians during the war.
He said that the three-member panel of judges also sentenced seven others, six of them in absentia, to life in prison.
Hossain was a central committee member of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party which opposed the creation of Bangladesh.
It aided the Pakistani army to carry out atrocities against civilians in what was then eastern Pakistan and is now Bangladesh.
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