Defiant: Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court in Dhaka. - AFP
DHAKA: A media tycoon who is a key figure in Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes, just days after its leader was ordered hanged for similar offences.
The war crimes court found wealthy businessman Mir Quasem Ali, an official of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of 10 charges, including murder and abduction during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
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