DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest court has upheld the death sentence handed down to a top opposition politician for war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence conflict against Pakistan.
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice S.K. Sinha, dismissed Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury’s appeal against a death sentence handed down by a controversial war crimes tribunal two years ago.
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