Bangladesh: Motiur Rahman Nizami hanged
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told bdnews24.com that he was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail at around 12:10am.
The execution was held amid tight security across the South Asian nation.
The Islamist leader was convicted of genocide, rape and torture.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the final plea to review his death sentence handed to fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami.
International Crimes Tribunal-1 had earlier handed a death sentence to him on October 29, 2014 over war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War with Pakistan.
The judgement was pronounced by four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
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