SQ Chy to file review petition

War criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will file a petition with the Supreme Court, seeking review of its judgment that has upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity and genocide during the 1971 Liberation War, said one of his lawyers.

The review petition would be filed by October 15, advocate Huzzatul Islam told The Daily Star after he met Salauddin at Kashimpur Jail-1 in Gazipur yesterday afternoon.

The lawyer said, during half an hour meeting since 3:30pm, his client had pointed out some grounds, which would be mentioned in the review petition.

He, however, refused to disclose the grounds.

Huzzatul said Salauddin, also a former BNP lawmaker, was both mentally and physically well.

On September 30, the SC released its full verdicts that upheld the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin for their wartime crimes, leaving them with the option of seeking review of the judgments.

In two verdicts in June and July this year, the apex court affirmed their death sentences after hearing their appeals against the judgments of the two International Crimes Tribunals that awarded them capital punishment more than two years ago for committing crimes against humanity in 1971.

On October 3, Mojaheed instructed his attorneys to lodge a petition with the SC, seeking review of its verdict on him.