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The Bangladesh Supreme Court yesterday fixed November 2 for hearing the review petitions filed by condemned war crimes convicts Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed against its verdicts upholding their death penalties for their crimes against humanity during the 1972 liberation war.
A bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, will hear the petitions.
On June 16, the apex court upheld the death sentence awarded by International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to Mojaheed for killing intellectuals during the war.
On July 29, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the then ICT that had condemned BNP leader Chowdhury to death for committing crimes against humanity.
On October 1, 2013, the then ICT found the BNP leader guilty of crimes against humanity during the war of liberation and condemned him to death.
On October 29 of the same year, Chowdhury filed an appeal with the Supreme Court against the ICT verdict.
The attorney general, acting on behalf of the government, early this week petitioned the court for early hearing on the two review petitions.
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