Bangladesh tightens security ahead of expected execution
Bangladeshi security personnel cordon an ambulance leaving Central Jail carrying the body of Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami party, after he was executed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 11, 2015. Pic: AP. 
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh have heightened security in the capital and elsewhere ahead of the expected execution of an Islamist party official sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, refused to seek presidential clemency, paving the way for him to become the second person put to death since tribunals were set up more than four years ago to try suspected war criminals.
Junior Home Minister Asaduzzman Khan told reporters that Qamaruzzaman would be hanged on Saturday.
By Saturday evening, the concerned officials to execute Qamaruzzaman had entered the jail, a senior prison official told The Associated Press by phone on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
