Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed ( ; 23 June 1948 – 22 November 2015 ) was a former Bangladeshi politician who served as a Member of Parliament and as the Minister of Social Welfare from 2001 to 2007 of Bangladesh and was convicted of war crimes during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh . He received death penalty by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on 22 November 2015 , becoming one of the world 's first Ministers to be hanged . He was second in command of the infamous paramilitary force , Al-Badr in 1971 , which committed war crimes at that time . Until his death , he was the Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami . On 17 July 2013 , Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed was found guilty of war crimes such as genocide , conspiracy in helping to kill intellectuals and abduction during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 and sentenced him to death for 2 of the 7 charges brought against him . High Court rejected his review petition on 18 November 2015
helping to kill intellectuals
1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed