Death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin
Quader Chowdhury have sought presidential clemency, the law minister
confirmed today.
“They have filed the petitions. But those have yet to reach my office,” Anisul Huq told The Daily Star.
After receiving the petition, the law ministry will send those to the
president through the Prime Minister’s Office with opinions, the
minister said.
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Earlier in the day, two magistrates went to the Dhaka Central Jail to
know whether the two top war criminals – Mojaheed of Jamaat-e-Islami
and Chowdhury of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – would seek
presidential mercy.
Yesterday, the authorities asked Mojaheed and Salauddin whether they
would seek presidential clemency, the last option for the two convicts
to avoid gallows. Both of them had said they would inform the prisons
officials about their decision later.
A day after delivering verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday
released its full verdicts that dismissed Mojaheed and Chowdhury’s
petitions to review their death sentences originally handed down by two
war crimes tribunals in 2013 Later, jail officials read out the SC verdicts to the war crimes convicts.
