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The Bangladeshi government has given the death sentence to Ashrafuzzaman Khan, a former Secretary-General of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) that lives in New York, for war crimes he committed during Bangladesh's liberation from Pakistan.
Khan was tried in absentia as part of a popularly supported crackdown on ICNA's parent group, Jamaat-e-Islami.
Khan was found guilty of murdering 18 professors, journalists and physicians that were supporting Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. The tribunal ruled that Khan "had de facto reasonable material and authority to control" the executioners. Bangladesh sentenced Khan to death by hanging if he were to be extradited to Bangladesh from America.