孟加拉国最高法院驳回了一位重要穆斯林领袖的上诉，维持对他的死刑判决。此人被控在1971年孟加拉脱离巴基斯坦的独立战争期间犯下了战争罪行。
星期二，孟加拉国最高法院首席大法官辛哈宣布了对阿里的这一判决。
63岁的阿里是伊斯兰大会党领袖，他2014年被判定8项罪名成立，其中包括绑架一名年轻男子，对他施以酷刑致死。
孟加拉国说，巴基斯坦军人及其孟加拉同伙在独立战争期间杀害了300万人。伊斯兰大会党是反对孟加拉国独立的。
另外几名孟加拉国穆斯林领袖已因战争罪被处决。伊斯兰大会党和反对党孟加拉国民族主义党批评说，政府的战争罪法庭带有政治动机。
Bangladesh’s highest court has rejected an appeal by a senior Islamist leader, upholding his death sentence for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war for independence with Pakistan.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha announced the decision Tuesday against Mir Quasem Ali.
The 63-year-old is a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party and was convicted in 2014 on eight charges that included the abduction of a young man and his killing in a torture cell.
Bangladesh says local collaborators and Pakistani soldiers killed 3 million people during the fight for independence, which Jamaat-e-Islami opposed.
Several other Islamist leaders have already been executed for war crimes. Jamaat-e-Islami and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have criticized the government’s war crimes tribunal as politically motivated.