Head of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, Motiur Rahman Nizami, has been hanged in Bangladesh for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence to break away from Pakistan,according to country’s the law minister

Nizami was hanged after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for genocide, rape and orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war

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