Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed (Bengali: আলী আহসান মুহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ; 23 June 1948 – 22 November 2015) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as a Member of Parliament and as the Minister of Social Welfare from 2001 to 2007. He was executed in 2015 for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh.
He was second in command of the infamous paramilitary force, Al-Badr in 1971, which committed war crimes at that time. On 17 July 2013, he was found guilty of war crimes such as genocide, conspiracy in helping to kill intellectuals and abduction during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 and sentenced to death for 2 of the 7 charges brought against him. The High Court rejected his review petition on 18 November 2015. He received death penalty from the tribunal on 22 November 2015, becoming one of the world's first Ministers to be hanged. Until his death, he was the Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
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