Mir Quasem transferred to Dhaka jail
Friday, 31 October 2014
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali has been moved to the Dhaka Central Jail in Old part of the city from Gazipur's Kashimpur central jail ahead of his war crimes case verdict. Quasem Ali, charged with crimes against humanity during the country's independence struggles in 1971, was sent to Dhaka around 12noon on Friday amid tight security, said Dhaka's Senior Jail Superintendent Md Jahangir Kabir in Kashimpur. Bangladesh's first war crimes tribunal on Thursday said it would deliver a verdict on the Jamaat leader on Nov 2 (Sunday), according to bdnews24.com.