A top leader of Bangladesh's main religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the nation's independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
A special tribunal in Bangladesh found the 62-year-old Amir Quashem Ali, who is a member of Jamaat-e-Islami party's highest policy making body, guilty on eight charges, two of which carried a death sentence, including the abduction of a young man and his killing in a torture cell, ABC News reported.
Ali was also sentenced to 72 years in prison on the other charges and the verdict was read by Judge Obaidul Hasan in the capital Dhaka.
Party's chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was sentenced to death last week by the court for the 1971 war crimes, has already been hanged.