Top Jammat leader to appeal against death sentence

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah will appeal to Bangladesh's Supreme Court against his death sentence on war crimes charges, his lawyers said today.
"We will file the petition after getting the certified copy of the short order," Mollah's defence counsel Tajul Islam said, a day after the apex court sentenced Mollah, 65, to death, revising the judgement of International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had given him life term for war crimes committed in 1971.
Islam and another defence counsel Shishir Monir said they are ready to submit the petition seeking stay the execution process until a review petition against the verdict is settled.

The counsels said they will file a review petition challenging the apex court verdict after getting its full text, the Daily Star said.
Tajul and Shishir informed that they have already applied to the Supreme Court authorities for the certified copy of the full text verdict as Mollah can file the review petition only after getting the copy.
The Supreme Court sources said the signed copy of the short verdict was not released yet.