Bangladesh militants awarded death sentence over attack on British diplomat to seek presidential mercy
Source: Xinhua   2017-03-22 19:28:18

DHAKA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Three militants of Bangladesh's local banned Harkat-ul- Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI) including its ringleader Mufti Abdul Hannan who were awarded death sentence over the deadly attack on a British diplomat have opted to seek presidential mercy.

Mizanur Rahman, senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur High Security Jail on the outskirts of the capital city, told journalists Wednesday that they would file mercy petitions to the president.

"When the copy of the verdict was read out to the militants they informed that they would seek pardon from the president."

However, Inspector General of Prisons in Bangladesh Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin told journalists after a program in Dhaka that the authorities are prepared to hang the militants.

A three-member Appellate Division bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, on Sunday morning dismissed the final review petition of the militants who are now behind the bar.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told journalists after the apex court ruling that there was no legal bar to execute the militants unless they sought presidential pardon.

The convicts had conducted the grenade attack on Anwar Chowdhury on May 21, 2004 at a shrine of Muslim saint in the country's northeastern city of Sylhet, some 241 km northeast of capital Dhaka, where the Bangladesh-born British high commissioner came to offer prayer.

Three people were killed and over 100, including Anwar Chowdhury, were injured in the deadly attack.

Mufti Hannan reportedly in a statement before a court in Dhaka in 2006 confessed to having supplied grenades for launching the attack.

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Bangladesh militants awarded death sentence over attack on British diplomat to seek presidential mercy

Source: Xinhua 2017-03-22 19:28:18
[Editor: huaxia]

DHAKA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Three militants of Bangladesh's local banned Harkat-ul- Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI) including its ringleader Mufti Abdul Hannan who were awarded death sentence over the deadly attack on a British diplomat have opted to seek presidential mercy.

Mizanur Rahman, senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur High Security Jail on the outskirts of the capital city, told journalists Wednesday that they would file mercy petitions to the president.

"When the copy of the verdict was read out to the militants they informed that they would seek pardon from the president."

However, Inspector General of Prisons in Bangladesh Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin told journalists after a program in Dhaka that the authorities are prepared to hang the militants.

A three-member Appellate Division bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, on Sunday morning dismissed the final review petition of the militants who are now behind the bar.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told journalists after the apex court ruling that there was no legal bar to execute the militants unless they sought presidential pardon.

The convicts had conducted the grenade attack on Anwar Chowdhury on May 21, 2004 at a shrine of Muslim saint in the country's northeastern city of Sylhet, some 241 km northeast of capital Dhaka, where the Bangladesh-born British high commissioner came to offer prayer.

Three people were killed and over 100, including Anwar Chowdhury, were injured in the deadly attack.

Mufti Hannan reportedly in a statement before a court in Dhaka in 2006 confessed to having supplied grenades for launching the attack.

[Editor: huaxia]
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