Md. Shakhawat Hossain

| death_date = 11 December 2021 (aged 68/69) | birth_place = Jessore District, East Pakistan | death_place = Bangladesh }} Md. Shakhawat Hossain, better known as Maulana Shakhawat, was a Bangladeshi politician. He represented the Jessore-6 constituency as a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member in the 5th and 6th Jatiya Sangsad respectively. He later served as a presidium member of the Jatiya Party.

In August 2016, International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Hossain to death for war crimes. He was convicted of killing two persons, raping one and torturing two others in Keshabpur Upazila of Jessore District during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Provided by Wikipedia