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Motiur Rahman Nizami: Bangladeshi Islamist leader hanged
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Bangladesh Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami sentenced to death
The head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, faced 16 charges including genocide, murder, torture and rape.
A state prosecutor said the sentence reflected the "gravity of the crimes".
The defence said that the charges were not proven beyond reasonable doubt and that it would appeal.
There are different estimates for the number of people killed in the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession.
Government figures suggest as many as three million people died, while some say that figure is too high and unverifiable.
A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh with a three-judge panel announced the verdict to a packed courtroom in Dhaka.
Nizami, who was head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was accused of acting as supreme commander of a militia, al-Badr, an auxiliary force which helped the Pakistani army identify and kill pro-independence activists in Bangladesh.
The prosecution said the group carried out systematic torture and executions during the war, including of teachers, engineers and journalists.
Nizami served as a minister in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
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Bangladesh buries Motiur Rahman Nizami amid protests
Clashes have erupted in Bangladesh after Motiur Rahman Nizami, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, was hanged on charges relating to the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war.
Police fired rubber bullets on Wednesday after hundreds of Jamaat supporters attacked them with stones in the northwestern city of Rajshahi.
“There were 500 Jamaat activists who were protesting against the execution. We fired rubber bullets as they became violent,” Selim Badsah, Rajshahi police inspector, told the AFP news agency.
He said about 20 people were arrested.
Jamaat activists and supporters of the governing Awami League also clashed in Chittagong, where about 2,500 attended a service for Nizami, Masudul Hasan, the port city’s deputy police chief, told AFP.
Security was tight across the country, with checkpoints erected on main roads in Dhaka to deter violence and thousands of police patrolling the Bangladeshi capital.
“The situation in Dhaka as well in other parts of the country remains calm,” Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury said.
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“On Wednesday, absentia funerals were held for Nizami in various cities.”
In recent months “Jamaat has not been able to organise any kind of protest on the