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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2023
Bangabandhu's killer Abdul Mazed hanged

Bangladesh

TBS Report
12 April, 2020, 12:05 am
Last modified: 12 April, 2020, 11:41 am

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Bangabandhu's killer Abdul Mazed hanged

He was executed at 12:01am Sunday at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, the first execution in the jail since it was opened

TBS Report
12 April, 2020, 12:05 am
Last modified: 12 April, 2020, 11:41 am
Bangabandhu's killer Abdul Mazed hanged

Captain (retd) Abdul Mazed has been hanged at midnight for his involvement in the murders of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members in 1975.

He was executed at 12:01am Sunday at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, the first execution in the jail since it was opened, by a team of hangmen led by hangman Shahjahan, Jailor Mahbubur Rahman told The Business Standard. 

He also said that everyone involved with the execution wore Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and maintained social distancing.

Abdul Mazed did not show any reaction on the gallow, sources at the prison said. 

Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha briefing the media after Abdul Mazed's execution. Photo: TBS
Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha briefing the media after Abdul Mazed's execution. Photo: TBS

Mazed's body will be taken to his village home in Bhola for burial. Jail authorities have already instructed Bhola district's deputy commissioner and law enforcement agencies regarding this, Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha told media after the execution. 

Meanwhile, members of the Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League from nearby areas gathered in front of the prison after hearing about the execution and started chanting slogans. 

Inspector General of Prisons, deputy commissioner of Dhaka and the civil surgeon's representative had visited the prison around 11pm to check the preparations of hanging. 

The jail authorities started the execution preparations on Friday afternoon. Family members also met Abdul Mazed in the jail the same day.

Earlier on Wednesday night, Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid rejected the mercy petition filed by Captain (retd) Abdul Mazed, hours after the convict had filed the petition. The death warrant was issued by a Dhaka court earlier on the day.

Earlier on April 7, a team of police's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit arrested Mazed from the capital's Mirpur area.

The trial of Bangabandhu assassination case started in 1997, 22 years after a group of disgruntled army officers assassinated him along with most of his family members on August 15 in 1975 in his Dhamandi-32 residence.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on November 19, 2009 upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted ex-army officers for the assassinations.

Five convicts were executed on January 27 in 2010. They are Syed Faruk Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan.

However, six more self-confessed killers — Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Noor Chowdhury, Rashed Chowdhury, Abdul Mazed and Moslehuddin Khan — have remained at large for the last four decades. 

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