2 Bangladesh opposition leaders executed for war crimes

Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders who had been convicted of committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, a senior jail official said Sunday, despite concerns raised by human rights groups that the legal proceedings that led to the death sentences were flawed. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury […]

Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders who had been convicted of committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, a senior jail official said Sunday, despite concerns raised by human rights groups that the legal proceedings that led to the death sentences were flawed.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid were executed at 12:55 a.m. at Dhaka Central Jail in the nation’s capital, Senior Jail Superintendent Mohammad Jahangir Kabir told The Associated Press.
“They have been hanged together, at the same time,” Kabir said.
Security was strengthened near the jail and elsewhere to avoid any violence.