Bangladesh: Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali hanged
He was executed for crimes committed against humanity during the Liberation War.
He was sentenced to death two years ago.
The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader was hanged from the noose at 10:30pm, Proshanto Kumar Banik, senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail, was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has also confirmed the execution to The Daily Star.
This was for the first time that a war criminal was executed at the Kashimpur jail in the country.
It is located outside Dhaka city.
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