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Bangladesh court sentences top Islamist to death in epic arms smuggling case

Sentenced to die: Matiur Rahman Nizami, head of Bangladesh's main Islamist opposition party, enters a prison van outside a court in Chittagong on Thursday after he was sentenced to death on charges of smuggling weapons to a rebel group in neighboring India. | AP

Jan 30, 2014

DHAKA –

AFP-JIJI

A Bangladesh court sentenced Thursday the leader of the country's largest Islamist party and 13 others to death over a huge 2004 arms smuggling racket, sparking fears of new political unrest.

Matiur Rahman Nizami, 70, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was convicted and sentenced over the racket involving 10 truckloads of arms seized by police a decade ago at a Bangladesh port.

Bangladesh court sentences top Islamist to death in epic arms smuggling case

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