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Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami calls countrywide daylong hartal for Sunday protesting at the death penalty for its Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami.The Supreme Court has upheld death sentence for condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.A four-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the verdict on Thursday morning, rejecting Nizami’s appeal to review his death penalty.