DHAKA, Bangladesh
Islamist leader executed for crimes against humanity
Authorities in Bangladesh on Saturday executed a senior Islamist party official convicted of crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, triggering a call for a nationwide general strike by the condemned man’s supporters.
One prison official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, told The Associated Press that Mohammad Qamaruzzaman was put to death by hanging Saturday night inside the central jail in the capital, Dhaka.
Prosecutors say Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, headed a militia group that collaborated with the Pakistani army in central Bangladesh in 1971 and was behind the killings of at least 120 unarmed farmers.
SANAA, Yemen
Rebels kill 3 border guards with mortar shell attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have killed three Saudi border guards in a mortar attack, the Saudi Defense Ministry said Saturday, as a plane loaded with medical aid arrived in the rebel-held Yemeni capital.
An unnamed military official quoted in the Defense Ministry statement said the incident took place Friday in the Saudi border province of Najran.
The Defense Ministry said its forces responded with gunfire, and that 500 Houthi fighters have been killed in clashes along the border since a Saudi-led air campaign against them began late last month.
BUDAPEST, Hungary
Investors protest, ask for government reimbursement
Hundreds of people who invested in a collapsed brokerage in Hungary demanded on Saturday that the government compensate fully for their losses.
Some 400 investors protested outside an office of the Quaestor brokerage, supervised since last month by the National Bank of Hungary after it was suspected of issuing some 150 billion forints ($535 million) in unauthorized bonds.
The investors say the government failed to protect their money because of lax financial oversight.
The governing Fidesz party has proposed raising the maximum compensation amount from 20,000 euros to 100,000 euros per investor.
– From news service reports
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