‘Quasem’s verdict is victory of our movement’

By Star Online Report
8 March 2016, 07:17 AM
UPDATED 8 March 2016, 13:33 PM

Gonojagoron Mancha today hailed the appeal verdict of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali and said it was an achievement of the movement they were all in.

"The Jamaat-e-Islami leaders who tried to foil Mir Quasem's trial have failed and it has been proved through Quasem's verdict," Imran H Sarker, spokesperson of a faction of Gonojagoron Mancha, told reporters this morning.

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The Supreme Court today upheld death for Mir Quasem Ali for his crimes against humanity in 1971 Liberation War.

Activists of Gonojagoron Mancha, a platform that demands the highest penalty for war criminals, gathered at Shahbagh in Dhaka since 7:00am ahead of the apex court's sitting.