Family members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, a war crime convict on death row, met him at the Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday morning.

A total of eight members of Kamaruzzaman's family, including his wife Nurunnahar, entered the jail at about 10:45am, spent some time with him and came out at about 11:40am.

Talking to reporters after the thirty-minute meeting, Mohammad Shishir Manir, counsel for the death-row convict, said the family members went to see Kamaruzzaman as part of regular visit.

“We’ll appeal to the higher court and hope to get justice,” the counsel added.

On February 19, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 issued a death warrant for Kamaruzzaman after receiving the full text of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during 1971 Liberation War.

On the same day, the prison authorities read out the death warrant to Kamaruzzaman.

On May 9, 2013, the tribunal condemned Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Kamaruzzaman, a 1971 operator of Al Badr vigilante outfit, to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, abduction, torture, rape and mass killing during the Liberation War.

On November 3 last year, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had condemned the Jamaat leader to death.