Delwar Hossain Sayeedi Biography

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, speaker and politician and convicted war criminal of the Bangladesh liberation war. He was a former Member of parliament of the Parliament of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008. The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh sentenced him to death in February 2013 for crimes against humanity in the war of 1971 in a disputed decision. It is believed that his crimes included genocide, mass murder, rape and arson. The tribunal received support within Bangladesh, but was criticized by several international observers. In September 2014 the Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.