Bangladesh hangs Jamaat-e-Islami leader

Bangladesh has hanged a political leader sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan. Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary-general of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami, refused to seek presidential clemency, as he became the second person to be put to death since tribunals were set up more than four years ago to try suspected war criminals. Earlier on Saturday, authorities in Bangladesh heightened security in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in advance of the planned execution. Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami organised demonstrations and vandalised cars in Dhaka following the execution.   Al Jazeera