Motiur Rahman Nizami Politician
Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান নিজামী), (born 1943) is a politician and the current chief (Ameer) of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, which is the largest Islamic political party in Bangladesh. On 29 October 2014 he was sentenced to death for war crimes in 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh. He was the supreme commander of the militia group Al-Badr during the Bangladesh Liberation War.While Human Rights Watch, various political entities and international organizations had originally welcomed the trials, in November 2011 Human Rights Watch criticized the government for aspects of their progress, lack of transparency, and reported harassment of defense lawyers and witnesses representing the accused. Nizami was the last high-profile suspect to be tried for 1971 war crimes; the court delayed his verdict in June 2014 because of the state of his health.Under separate charges for arms trafficking to the state of Assam, India in 2004, Nizami was convicted and in January 2014 sentenced to death, along with 13 other men.