January 27, 2010 11:51 AM

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Bangladesh SC rejects Mujib killers' review petitions

<br/>The Bangladesh Supreme Court has dismissed the review petitions of five former army officers facing death penalties for the 1975 assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<br/><br/>The special four-member bench of the Supreme Court , headed by chief justice Md Tafazzul Islam gave its ruling on Wednesday after hearing the review petitions filed by the convicted killers of Bangabandhu, Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed .<br/><br/>The ruling upholds the death sentence confirmed by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.<br/><br/>With this ruling the fate of the five convicts is now sealed as on Jan 3 this year, a Dhaka district and sessions judge signed and sent death warrants for all five to Dhaka Central Jail, where the convicted killers are being held in condemned cells.<br/>

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