Bangladesh Supreme Court upheld Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah’s death sentence on Thursday, clearing roads for his execution by dismissing his last-minute plea.

The 65-year-old former Jamat leader Mullah has been convicted with 1971 war crimes, received a stay on Tuesday night just hours before the execution as his lawyers approached Supreme Court for review.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that now there is no legal bar to execute Abdul Quader Mollah.

“There are no more barriers to execute Quader Mollah. There is no chance of any confusion,” he said.

Mullah is convicted for killing unarmed civilians in Dhaka and Mirpur during Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. At first he was given life imprisonment by the war crimes tribunal but following country wide protest by thousands of people demanding Mollah’s death penalty, the government appealed in the Supreme Court which awarded a death sentence for Abdul Kader Mullah.

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