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DHAKA: Around 50,000 people attended Tuesday’s funeral for a Jamaat-i-Islami leader in Bangladesh, police said, after news of his death in prison sparked violent protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death in 2013 for his role in the rape, murder and the persecution of Hindu Bangladeshis during the country’s independence war decades earlier. He was the vice president of the …

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