孟加拉國法院維持對伊斯蘭領袖的死刑判決大綱

Bangladesh's highest court has rejected an appeal by a senior Islamist leader, upholding his death sentence for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war for independence with Pakistan.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha announced the decision Tuesday against Mir Quasem Ali.

The 63-year-old is a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party and was convicted in 2014 on eight charges that included the abduction of a young man and his killing in a torture cell.

Bangladesh says local collaborators and Pakistani soldiers killed 3 million people during the fight for independence, which Jamaat-e-Islami opposed.

Several other Islamist leaders have already been executed for war crimes. Jamaat-e-Islami and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have criticized the government's war crimes tribunal as politically motivated.孟加拉國最高法院駁回了一位重要穆斯林領袖的上訴，維持對他的死刑判決。此人被控在1971年孟加拉脫離巴基斯坦的獨立戰爭期間犯下了戰爭罪行。

星期二，孟加拉國最高法院首席大法官辛哈宣佈了對阿里的這一判決。

63歲的阿里是伊斯蘭大會黨領袖，他2014年被判定8項罪名成立，其中包括綁架一名年輕男子，對他施以酷刑致死。

孟加拉國說，巴基斯坦軍人及其孟加拉同夥在獨立戰爭期間殺害了300萬人。伊斯蘭大會黨是反對孟加拉國獨立的。

另外幾名孟加拉國穆斯林領袖已因戰爭罪被處決。伊斯蘭大會黨和反對黨孟加拉國民族主義黨批評說，政府的戰爭罪法庭帶有政治動機。