The United Nations has renewed its call on the Bangladesh government to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty and abolish this inhuman practice altogether.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses hopes that the Supreme Court hearing on the appeal of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty will be completed by Dec 15.

The lawyers for death row war criminals SQ Chy and Mojaheed are yet to get permission from Dhaka Central Jail authorities to meet their clients.

The death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury do not give their decision over seeking presidential clemency.

Death row war crimes convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed met their families at Dhaka jail. The meetings took place a day after the Supreme Court turned down their pleas for review against death penalty for war crimes during 1971 Liberation War.

The full verdict of Supreme Court on death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury reaches the Dhaka central jail.

BNP is yet to give any reaction on the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding death penalty for its standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Jamaat-e-Islami calls a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) for tomorrow protesting Supreme Court’s rejection of party secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s plea to review its ruling upholding his death penalty for war crimes.

Now that Supreme Court has disposed of the review petitions of war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, there is no legal barrier now for execution of the verdict awarding them death penalty, the attorney general says.

The Supreme Court is set to hold hearing on two petitions tomorrow, seeking review of its judgments that upheld the death penalty for war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

A Mymensingh court awards death penalty to six persons in connection with killing an eight-year-old boy in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh in 2010.

Amnesty International has caused fury and rage in the minds of Bangladeshis with its latest statement in support of two war criminals awaiting death – SQ Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

The Supreme Court can not resume the hearing on the appeal filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, challenging a verdict that sentenced him to death for his war crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The Supreme Court defers till Nov 17 the hearing on the petitions filed by condemned war criminals Mojaheed and Salauddin seeking review of its judgements that upheld death penalties for their crimes against humanity in 1971.

The Supreme Court is set to hold hearings tomorrow on the review petitions by two condemned war criminals--Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury -- against its verdicts that upheld their death penalty.

War criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will file petitions with the Supreme Court tomorrow seeking review of their death penalty.

Five lawyers of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail tomorrow “to discuss the recently released full verdict and the ground of the review”.

Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam says that death sentences will surely be executed after bringing back the fugitive killers of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The Tripura Assembly unanimously resolved to send a proposal to the Centre for abolishing death penalty and to provide imprisonment up to death in case of heinous crimes.

The Supreme Court commutes death penalty of a convict to imprisonment until death over rape and murder of a child in Manikganj.