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LOS ANGELES, March 14 (Reuters) - US immigration officials said on Wednesday they had arrested a former Bangladeshi army officer wanted for his role in a 1975 military coup in which Bangladesh's president was killed.
Mohiuddin AKM Ahmed, 60, was arrested at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday and was being held pending a deportation hearing, immigration officials said.
In 1998, Ahmed was convicted and sentenced to death in his absence for his role in the August 1975 coup that led to the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first president.
Death sentences against 10 of the 15 convicted officers were upheld by Bangladesh's High Court in 2000.
Ahmed first came to the United States on a visitor's visa in 1996 and applied to remain here permanently. After years of deportation orders and appeals, a federal appeals court in San Francisco last month denied his petition to review his case.
"He was a foreign fugitive and we aggressively will continue to seek out, locate, arrest and deport individuals in coordination with law enforcement around the world," said Brian DeMore of the Los Angeles office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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