Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, executed on 10 May 2016; he had been sentenced to death for war crimes committed during War of Independence of 1971 in October 2014
Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of political party Jamaat-e-Islami, at imminent risk of execution as Supreme Court upheld his death sentence on 6 March 2016; he was convicted of war crimes during War of Independence of 1971