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Bangladesh: BNP leader sentenced to life imprisonment

Bangladesh: BNP leader sentenced to life imprisonment

Rediff.com9 Oct 2013

A special Bangladeshi tribunal on Wednesday sentenced opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party's 83-year-old leader Abdul Alim to jail until death for committing large-scale killings and other war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan.

Bangladesh: Lawmaker sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes

Bangladesh: Lawmaker sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes

Rediff.com1 Oct 2013

A prominent lawmaker of the opposition Bangladesh National Party was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a special Bangladeshi tribunal for genocide during the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, becoming the first Member of Parliament and seventh person to be convicted of crimes against humanity.