Bangladesh Islamist to be hanged after midnight: prisons chief Dhaka (AFP)

• 10/12/2013 - 14:54

  
  

  
  A Bangladeshi Islamist leader convicted of mass murder and rape during the country's 1971 independence war will be hanged just after midnight Tuesday, the prisons chief said.
  "Yes," Main Uddin KhandakerAbdul Quader Molla told AFP when asked whether Abdul Quader Molla, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, would be executed after midnight(1800 GMT Monday).COPY  http://www.afp.com