President grants clemency to 20 AL activists sentenced to death
They are being set free from Dhaka, Rajshahi Central Jails
Natore, Sept 6 (UNB) - President Ziallur Rahman granted clemency to 20 Awami League activists sentenced to death for murder are being set free from Dhaka and Rajshahi Central jails anytime now.
Sadar Upazila Parishad vice-chairman Asadur Rahman Asad told UNB tonight that documents of the President’s granting their mercy petition reached the Dhaka and Rajshahi jails on Thursday. They are likely to be released tonight.
Dhaka Central Jail sources confirmed the receipt of clemency order. “We are examining the documents. They will be set free tonight or tomorrow,” a senior jail official told UNB.
Judge Riroze Alam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal of Dhaka had sentenced 21 people, including Naldanga thana Awami League general secretary SM Feroze on August 24, 2006 for murder of Jubo Dal leader Sabbir Hossain Gama, also nephew of former BNP central leader Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu.
One of the convicts, Akbar Ali, remained fugitive since the incident while ten each are now in Dhaka and Rajshahi Central Jails.
The convicts, all Awami League activists of Naldanga, had made mercy petition to the President, which was granted, said Asadur Rahman.
They had been accused of hacking and shooting down Sabbir Hossain at Kazipur Kamarpara bazaar on February 7, 2004 by terrorists. The killers had left the spot raising slogans of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party.
His father Rafiqul Islam Talukdar had filed the murder case against 16 identified AL activists and about 16 others unknown. Police investigator charge sheeted them. Natore District and Sessions judge’s court transferred the case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal Court in Dhaka that convicted and sentenced 21 persons to death.
Those are in Dhaka Central Jail are SM Firoze and his brothers Fazlul Haq Master and Farooq Hossain, Anisur Rahman and his sons Sentu and Farooq, Shahjahan Ali, Badal, Zahedul Islam and Faruq Hossain.
Zahurul Shah, Sajjad, Sohag, Bablu, Abul, Ataur, Ashraf, Formazul, Fakhruddin and Ohidur Rahman ad in Rajshahi Jail.
Sadar Upazila Parishad vice-chairman Asadur Rahman Asad told UNB tonight that documents of the President’s granting their mercy petition reached the Dhaka and Rajshahi jails on Thursday. They are likely to be released tonight.
Dhaka Central Jail sources confirmed the receipt of clemency order. “We are examining the documents. They will be set free tonight or tomorrow,” a senior jail official told UNB.
Judge Riroze Alam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal of Dhaka had sentenced 21 people, including Naldanga thana Awami League general secretary SM Feroze on August 24, 2006 for murder of Jubo Dal leader Sabbir Hossain Gama, also nephew of former BNP central leader Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu.
One of the convicts, Akbar Ali, remained fugitive since the incident while ten each are now in Dhaka and Rajshahi Central Jails.
The convicts, all Awami League activists of Naldanga, had made mercy petition to the President, which was granted, said Asadur Rahman.
They had been accused of hacking and shooting down Sabbir Hossain at Kazipur Kamarpara bazaar on February 7, 2004 by terrorists. The killers had left the spot raising slogans of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party.
His father Rafiqul Islam Talukdar had filed the murder case against 16 identified AL activists and about 16 others unknown. Police investigator charge sheeted them. Natore District and Sessions judge’s court transferred the case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal Court in Dhaka that convicted and sentenced 21 persons to death.
Those are in Dhaka Central Jail are SM Firoze and his brothers Fazlul Haq Master and Farooq Hossain, Anisur Rahman and his sons Sentu and Farooq, Shahjahan Ali, Badal, Zahedul Islam and Faruq Hossain.
Zahurul Shah, Sajjad, Sohag, Bablu, Abul, Ataur, Ashraf, Formazul, Fakhruddin and Ohidur Rahman ad in Rajshahi Jail.
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