Dhaka: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, a war crime convict on death row, on Thursday filed a review petition for reconsidering the verdict delivered against him for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Kamaruzzaman’s lawyers submitted the petition to the concerned branch of Supreme Court at about 11:30am.

Earlier, on Wednesday, Kamarruzaman’s lawyer Tajul Islam, after a five-member lawyer team headed by Islam met him at Dhaka Central Jail, said Kamaruzzaman asked them to submit a review petition.
The other lawyers are Shishir Monir, Ehsan A Siddique, Moshiul Alam, and M Rahman Akand.

On 19 February, 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 9 May 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 3 November last year, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had condemned the Jamaat leader to death.