DHAKA: A Bangladesh tribunal on Thursday sentenced to death Bangladesh Nationalist Party Leader MA Zahid Hossain Khokon over his involvement in killings and other crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, local media reported.
According to reports, the leader is currently in Sweden with his daughter and son.
ATM Fazle Rabbi, the head judge of a three-member panel, told a packed court that the tribunal had found Kohkon guilty of 10 of the 11 charges he faced.
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