Jail authority calls Mir Quasem’s family

The family of death-row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali has been asked to meet him at the Kashimpur prison in Gazipur.
Confirming the matter, Mir Quasem’s daughter Sumaiya Rabeya on Saturday told jagonews24.com that, we have been told to go there at 3:30pm.

The execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s death sentence now only awaits the government’s green light as the war crimes convict have refused to seek presidential  clemency.

On Tuesday, the SC dismissed Quasem’s petition seeking a review of the judgment that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity in 1971.

The apex court released the full verdict and sent it to the International Crimes Tribunal.

The ICT then sent copies of the verdict to Dhaka Central Jail, the office of Dhaka district magistrate, and law and home ministries. The Dhaka jail sent a copy to the Kashimpur jail.

In November 2014, the ICT-2 sentenced Quasem to death on two charges and awarded him different jail terms on eight other charges.