Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, deputy chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami waves from a car as police arrest him in Dhaka June 29, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests by their supporters.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a rise in Islamist violence in recent months, with two foreigners and four secular writers and a publisher killed this year.
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