Jailed Bangladesh Islamist Leader Dies

The jailed leader of a prominent Bangladeshi Islamist party died Thursday, his son and medical sources confirmed. 



Ghulam Azzam, the former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, died at the Bangabandu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital in the capital city of Dhaka. 



There has been no statement from the government or hospital but the death was confirmed by his son Abdullah Mamoon Azam and two doctors, who cannot be named.



Azzam was serving a 90-year prison sentence handed by the International Crimes Tribunal, a domestic process to investigate violence during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.



Several other senior Jamaat-e-Islami figures were investigated and convicted by the tribunal, which legal and human rights organizations have accused of being flawed. 



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