Death row convict Abdul Quader Molla’s son Hasan Jamal on Tuesday said
that if his father was executed it would be a ‘political killing.’
‘Even according to the old jail code, he [Quader] is entitled to get
seven days to decide whether he will seek the presidential clemency,
but the government is executing him hastily,’ Hasan told reporters at the jail gate after meeting his father at 8:50pm.
‘My father said executing him forcibly would tantamount to killing and it would be a political killing,’ said Hasan.
‘I am being executed for my involvement in Islamic movement,’ Quader,
also Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general, was quoted by his
eldest son Jamil Ahsan to have told the family.
Jamil said that Quader requested all to keep patience.
‘The Islamic movement will get further pace in Bangladesh with my
martyrdom and I will meet you [relatives] again at the stairway to
heaven,’ Quader was quoted by Jamil.
Jamil along with his mother and over 20 relatives met Quader at 8:00pm
being invited by the prison authority to see him for the last time. The
relatives stayed with Quader for about 40 minutes.
The Appellate Division on September 17 sentenced Quader to death on
charge of crimes against humanity committed during the war of
independence in 1971.
Jamaat in a statement said that Quader’s execution would be a political killing and the party
warned the government of dire consequences of the execution.
‘If the government executes th conspiracy to kill Quader, the
consequences will be deadly,’ Jamaat acting secretary general Shafiqur
Rahman said in the statement.
He alleged that the government has violated the constitution, Supreme Court rules and the Jail Code to hang Quader in a hurry.
‘Everyone in the government involved in breaking the rule of law will have to answer to the people,’ the statement read. (source)