Gazipur: Family members of condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Matiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Thursday.

Jail super of Kashimpur Jail part-2 Proshanto Kumar Banik said Nizami’s wife Samsunnahar, his two sons -- Najibur Rahman and Naimur Rahman— and three daughter-in-laws Subarna, Raiyan and Falua— entered the jail gate at about 12pm.

They spent half an hour with him and got out of it at about 12:30pm, said Proshanto Kumar.  

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

On March 14, the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding the death penalty of Nizami.

Later, a copy of the Appellate Division’s full verdict was sent to the registrar’s office of the ICT in the evening.

The copy of the death warrant for Nizami was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail after the ICT issued the death warrant for Nizami for his war crimes on the day.

The Dhaka jail authorities sent the death warrant copy to Kashimpur Jail on the same day as war criminal Nizami is being kept there.

On 15 March, the jail authorities read out the death warrant to Matiur Rahman Nizami at Kashimpur Central Jail.

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.

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.