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Death warrant for Mollah

Jamaat calls countrywide hartal for today

Staff Correspondent
The war crimes tribunal yesterday issued a warrant of execution for Jamaat leader Quader Mollah, condemned to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
In protest, Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for today.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 issued the warrant yesterday on receiving the full text of the Supreme Court verdict that overruled the tribunal's life imprison-
ment for Mollah and gave him the death penalty.
It sent the copy of the order and relevant documents to the jail authorities, the home ministry and the district magistrate of Dhaka, tribunal registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud told reporters.
The jail authorities received the warrant of execution at 4:15pm, said Md Farman Al i, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail, last night.
However, lawyers are still in a dispute
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over when Mollah could be executed and whether he has the right to file a review petition with the apex court.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star that the issuance of execution warrant had cleared the way for the government to execute Mollah.
"There is no legal obstacle to executing Abdul Quader Mollah now, since he has no right to file any review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict awarding him death penalty," he said.
The attorney general claimed that a convict usually could file a review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict under article-105 of the constitution but the article would not be applicable for Mollah since he was a war-crimes convict.
He further said war criminals could not
get relief under article-47A (2) and the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, does not allow Mollah to file a review petition.
Meanwhile, defence lawyers for Quader Mollah sent a notice to the chief prosecutor's office saying that Mollah would file a review petition with the Supreme Court shortly after getting the certified copy of the verdict.
Advocate Shishir Manir, a lawyer for Mollah, was adamant that his client had the right to file the petition. He hoped to get the certified copy of the apex court's verdict today.
If the court rejects the review petition, Mollah could be put to death after 21 days and before 28 days of the rejection order, he said, adding that Mollah and his family members would decide on praying for presidential mercy.
Replying to a question, Shishir claimed
that it would be illegal if the government executed Mollah without giving him the opportunity to move a review petition.
Court sources said the whole procedure of Mo 11 ah's execution could also be halted by the Supreme Court if it passed a stay order.
On February 5, the Tribunal-2 sentenced Mollah to life imprisonment but the Supreme Court on September 17 awarded him the death penalty. The full verdict of the Supreme Court was released on Thursday.
Additional Secretary Main Uddin Khandaker of the home ministry told The Daily Star that his office yesterday received the warrant of execution.
State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam said the government would execute Quader Mollah as soon as possible.