Sayedee to seek review

Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee will file a review against the Supreme Court judgement that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment till death.

Masud Sayedee, son of the Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer said, We are going to file the petition, pleading for acquitting him of all the charges

Masud said their counsels -- advocates Matiur Rahman Akand, Eusuf Ali and Saifur Rahman -- met his father at jail today. The decision came a day after the state filed the plea seeking death for the Jamaat leader on five grounds.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on February 28, 2013, convicted Sayedee of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death.

He was found guilty in eight of the 20 charges which included murder, rape, arson, loot, abduction and persecution in different places of Pirojpur. Sayedee filed the appeal against the death verdict on March 28, 2013.

The Appellate Division on September 17, 2014, sentenced Sayedee to imprisonment till natural death, modifying the verdict of the ICT-1.

The Apex Court released the full verdict on December 31, 2015, and copies of the verdict reached the tribunal on January 3.