Reacting to the execution on Saturday of Mir Quasem Ali – a key financier of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami party, who was found guilty by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal in a flawed trial – Amnesty International said:
“The execution of Mir Quasem Ali, following a trial whose fairness was questioned by the UN, will not deliver justice that the people of Bangladesh deserve for crimes committed during the War of Independence. The death penalty is a cruel and irreversible punishment that most of the world’s countries have now rid themselves of,” said Champa Patel, Amnesty International’s South Asia Director.
The execution of Mir Quasem Ali, following a trial whose fairness was questioned by the UN, will not deliver justice that the people of Bangladesh deserve for crimes committed during the War of Independence. The death penalty is a cruel and irreversible punishment that most of the world’s countries have now rid themselves of
Champa Patel, Amnesty International's South Asia Director