Counsels for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, a war crime convict on death row, met him at the Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday morning.

A five-member lawyer team headed by advocate Tajul Islam entered the jail at about 10:45am and came out after an hour.

The other lawyers are Shishir Monir, Ehsan A Siddique, Moshiul Alam and M Rahman Akand.

On 19 February, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 issued a death warrant for Kamaruzzaman after receiving the full text of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during 1971 Liberation War.

On the same day, the prison authorities read out the death warrant to Kamaruzzaman.

On 9 May 2013, the tribunal condemned Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Kamaruzzaman, a 1971 operator of Al Badr vigilante outfit, to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, abduction, torture, rape and mass killing during the Liberation War.

On 3 November last year, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had condemned the Jamaat leader to death.