The military captain was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country's founding leader, a minister said Sunday.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld the verdict in 2009 and five of the killers were executed several months later. "He was hanged to death at 12.01 am Sunday ," law minister Anisul Huq told AFP, adding the execution took place at the country's largest prison, just outside the capital Dhaka.Majed's wife met him at the prison one last time on Saturday evening when the prison authorities had scheduled his execution.
In a video message, the country's home minister this week called Majed's arrest"the best gift of Mujib centenary year".
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