Dhaka:The copy of death warrant for war crime convict Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami has been sent to Dhaka Central Jail’s Kashimpur part 2.

A copy of the execution warrant reached the jail wrapped in pieces of red cloth at about 9:30am on Wednesday and the jail authorities read out the copy to war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami.

Kashempur part 2 jail super Prashanta Kumar said Nizami expressed his desire to file a petition for reviewing the verdict after he was read out the copy of death warrant.

On 15 March night ICT issued the death warrant for the condemned Jamaat leader for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971.

ICT registrar Shahidul Alam said three ICT judges signed the death warrant at about 9:05am.

Earlier on 15 March afternoon, the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding the death penalty of Nizami.

On January 6 last, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, upheld the death sentence of the Jamaat Ameer for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

The Appellate Division upheld the International Crimes Tribunal 1 order that sentenced Nizami to death for committing crimes against humanity, including genocide and murder of intellectuals, during the war.

The apex court upheld his death penalty for three of the four counts of charges while he was acquitted for the rest one.

The SC upheld his life term imprisonment for two charges, out of four in connection with the arrest, detention, torture, and murder of three people, including head Maulana Kasim Uddin of Pabna Zila School on 4 June, 1971, complicity in torture, murder and rape at Mohammadpur Physical Training Institute in Dhaka, and murder of Badi, Rumi Jewel and Azad at Old MP Hostel in Dhaka on August 30, 1971.

The Appellate Division acquitted the Jamaat leader of two other charges.

On 29 October, 2014, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Nizami to death for committing crimes against humanity, including genocide and the murder of intellectuals, during the Liberation War.

The tribunal sentenced Nizami, the 1971 commander-in-chief of Al Badr, a secret killing squad of Jamaate-e-Islami, the capital punishment each on four counts of charges of war crimes, terming Al Badr a criminal outfit.

Nizami filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on 23 November, 2014 challenging the death sentence and claimed himself innocent and sought to be cleared of the charges.