DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to scrap the death sentence on a senior figure in the country's largest Islamist party for genocide and torture during the 1971 war of independence, sparking protests in which one student was killed.
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, 63, an assistant secretary general of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, had appealed against his sentence on March 5.
