Family members meet Sayedee at Kashimpur jail
Family members of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee met him at Kashimpur Central Jail yesterday, two days after the Supreme Court commuted his capital punishment to jail until death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Sayedee's wife, three sons and a niece met him for around 30 minutes for the first time after the SC verdict.
“My father is dissatisfied with the [SC] verdict...He believes that he is a victim of the government's political vengeance in what is a politically motivated case,” his son Masood Sayedee told The Daily Star last night.
“He seeks blessings from people so that he can come out of the jail to dedicate his life for the service of Quran,” said Masood quoting his father.
He added that his father's health condition was quite well.
The SC on Wednesday commuted Sayedee's death sentence handed down by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on February 28 last year on charges of killing, abduction, torture, rape and forced religious conversion.
A five-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, delivered the verdict based on majority views that spared the 74-year-old Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer gallows.
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