Family meets Nizami at Kashimpur jail

Family members of death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur jail in Gazipur, on the outskirts of the capital, yesterday.

The six family members including his wife talked to him for around 40 minutes from 12:40pm, Senior Jail Superintendent of the prison Prasanta Kumar Banik told The Daily Star.

It was the second time the family members met him after International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued death warrant against him on March 15, hours after the Supreme Court released its full verdict upholding his death penalty.

In October 2014, the ICT-1 handed down capital punishment to Nizami, the chief of anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami and leader of the infamous Al-Badr Bahini, for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

On March 29 this year, Nizami filed a petition seeking a review of the SC verdict.

The SC yesterday fixed Sunday for hearing the petition.