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The main superintendent of the jail, Subhash Kumar Das, said the death warrant wrapped in red cloth was read to him around 3.30 pm after he arrived at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday afternoon.
He told bdnews24.com: “After reading the order, he said he would request a review from the Appeals Division.”
On January 14 of this year, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld Kaiser’s death sentence. Following the full verdict, the Supreme Court sent it to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday afternoon.
The court then issued a death sentence Thursday morning. In addition to the jail, copies of the orders were sent to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior and the Dhaka District Magistrate, said court clerk Saeed Ahmed.
Under the rules, Syed Mohammad Kaiser, former Minister of State in HM Ershad’s government, will be able to request a review of the death penalty within 15 days of the full verdict. If it does not apply, the verdict can be effective any day.
Kaiser’s attorney, Tanvir Ahmed Alamin, told bdnews24.com that they would request a review if they received a certified copy of the verdict.
“My client has directed us to file a request for review. There is a request to obtain a certified copy of the judgment. Maybe I’ll get it in a few days. “
War criminal Kaiser’s death warrant is issued
It is unprecedented to reduce the sentence by appealing for a review of the Supreme Court verdict for war crimes. All war criminals who were executed before were unable to change the maximum sentence even after requesting a review.
Even if the request for review is rejected, Syed Kaiser can plead guilty to the president. If you do not ask for mercy and if you do not obtain forgiveness, then the countdown to the execution of the verdict will begin. You will have one last chance to meet with your family before the verdict is carried out.
The former Muslim League leader was arrested on the night of May 15, 2013, when the court issued an arrest warrant for Kaiser. The court granted him a conditional bond considering his age and health.
The court began the trial of Syed Kaiser on February 2 of the following year, charging 17 war crimes cases. At the end of that trial, on December 23, 2014, he was sentenced to death.
Following that verdict, this 1971 war criminal was sent back to jail. He appealed against the court’s verdict. But his death sentence is confirmed in the final verdict of the Supreme Court on January 14 of this year.
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The 1971 emperor was a loyal ally of the Pakistani army. The people of Brahmanbaria and Habiganj know him as a person notorious for the war crimes he committed by forming a group called ‘Kaiser Bahini’.
That Kaiser became the BNP man in the time of Ziaur Rahman in independent Bangladesh, of the Jatiya Party during the time of Hussain Muhammad Ershad; The Minister of State also went to the forest with the strategy of changing parties.
On December 23, 2014, the court ruled that “Kaiser had sided so openly with the Pakistani aggressors that he did not hesitate to hand over the women of his village to Pakistanis for abuse.”
The court sentenced Kaiser to death on seven counts, including the rape of two women. One of the two heroines and a child born in her womb also testified in the case. In another case, there were allegations of arbitrary murder.
The war crimes court also sentenced him to death on four counts of kidnapping, detention, torture and murder, and another 22 years on three counts.
Kaiser’s death sentence was upheld on three counts. His death sentence was commuted to life in prison on three counts. He was sentenced to death on three counts and up to seven years in prison for one count.
The Appeals Division also cleared Kaiser of five counts of capital punishment, death penalty, 10 years in prison and 5 years in prison.
This is the ninth case on appeal since the long-awaited war crimes trial began in 2010, with the final verdict announced.
In six of the eight previous verdicts, Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami of Jamaat, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, two Under-Secretary-Generals Quader Mollah and Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Party Council Member Mir Qasim Ali, and BNP Standing Committee Member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were executed.
Another verdict by the Appeals Division reduced the sentence of Nayeb Amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee of Jamaat to life in prison. There were no changes to the state and defendant’s request for review.
Furthermore, the death sentence of the former Jamaat-e-Islami ATM Azharul Islam Deputy Secretary General was upheld and the Appeals Division handed down a full death sentence in March last year.
After receiving a certified copy of the verdict, the war criminal requested a review of the death sentence on July 19. However, the request for review has yet to be heard as court proceedings have been suspended due to the coronavirus epidemic.
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Syed Mohammad Kaiser aka Mohammad, son of Syed Saiduddin and Begum Hamida Banu from the village of Itakhola in Madhabpur of Habiganj. Kaiser aka Syed Kaiser aka SM Kaiser was born on June 19, 1940.
His father Syed Saiduddin was elected MLA from the Sylhet-6 constituency Muslim Convention in 1982. In the same year, his son Kaiser joined the Muslim League politics.
From 1961 to 1971, Kaiser was a member of the Sylhet District Committee of the Muslim League. He was defeated in 1970 as an independent candidate in the East Pakistan Provincial Council elections.
In 1971, the leader of the Muslim League formed the “Kaiser Bahini” with 500 to 600 “anti-independence” forces in collaboration with the Pakistani occupation army. He himself was the head of that force.
The court also ruled that he had led the Pakistani army to various villages and cracked down on the pro-independence and Hindu community.
On December 16, 1971, just before Pakistani forces surrendered, Kaiser fled to London. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned to the country in 1975 after his family was killed.
During the reign of Ziaur Rahman, Kaiser returned to political participation in 1986. In the second parliamentary elections in 1989, he was elected as an independent candidate from the Sylhet-17 constituency.
Later he joined BNP and became Chairman of Habiganj BNP. In 1982, he also became the deputy general secretary of the Shah Azizur Rahman faction of the BNP.
During the reign of the military ruler Hussein Muhammad Ershad, Kaiser joined the Jatiya Party and became the chairman of the Habiganj branch. In 1978 and 1978, he elected Langal Pratik from the Habiganj-4 constituency and became a member of Parliament again. At that time, Ershad also gave him the responsibility of state agriculture minister.
Then, in 1991, 1996 and 2001, he was elected from the Jatiya Party and lost. At one point, he left Ershad’s party and joined the PDP.
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