Dhaka: The death-row war crimes convict Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s family on Saturday demanded Mojaheed didn’t seek presidential clemency and the government was spreading rumours with his clemency news.

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday told United News of Bangladesh that Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury submitted their separate mercy petitions to the President.

Mojaheed’s son Ali Ahmad Mabrur told NTV Online, ‘Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed didn’t seek clemency. He told us earlier that he wouldn’t take any decision before meeting his lawyers.’

‘I think the government is intentionally spreading rumours with his clemency, he added.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld its previous verdicts on BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed rejecting their pleas for reviewing the court’s previous order for the death penalties for their crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.