- A Tehran court has jailed for one year a British-Iranian woman arrested after trying to attend a volleyball match. The case of Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old law graduate from London, has drawn considerable political attention because of her dual nationality and lengthy detention before trial.
- At least 55 people, including children and security personnel, were killed and nearly 200 injured in a powerful suicide blast at Wagah in Pakistan on Sunday evening, minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony at the main Indo-Pakistan land border crossing.
- A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Sunday sentenced to death a senior leader of the largest Islamist party, the second capital sentence in a week for the mass killings during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Mir Quashem Ali sat calmly in the dock as Judge Obaidul Hasan read the verdict in the packed courtroom in Dhaka, the capital. The 62-year-old Ali is a member of Jamaat-e-Islami party’s highest policy making body and he is considered to be one of top financiers of the party. Last week, the court sentenced to death the party’s leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for the 1971 war crimes. Another senior leader has already been hanged. In protest, Jamaat-e-Islami party enforced a nationwide general strike on Sunday, though no violence was reported. The court’s previous verdicts have triggered street violence.
Credits: The Hindu, Google.
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