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Family meets Nizami at Kashimpur jail

The family members of convicted death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, Jamaat-e-Islami chief, have met him at the Kashimpur jail on Friday morning in Gazipur.A group of six family members- Nizami’s wife Begum Shamsunnahar Nizami, sons Nazib Momen alias Nazibur Rahman and Naimur Rahman, and daughters-in-law Saleya and Raiyan and his daughters went inside the jail around 11:30am Friday, said Kashimpur jail 2 jail super Prashanta Kumar.Earlier on Thursday, the four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheld death sentence for Motiur Rahman Nizami for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 War of Independence.