Bangladesh
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- December 16, 1972, suspended on March 24, 1982, restored on November 10, 1986, amended several times
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law and Islamic law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (judges appointed by the President)
RELIGIONS
83% Muslims, 16% Hindus, Buddhist, Catholic, and Protestant minorities
From the country
JUNE 22, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 5 TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER IN CUMILLA
A court has handed down the death penalty to seven people and sentenced five others to life in prison for the murder of a plumber in Cumilla in 2006.
JUNE 19, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: EXECUTIONER WHO HANGED 26 CONVICTS WALKS OUT OF PRISON
A jailed Bangladeshi hangman who executed more than two dozen fellow prisoners including killers and coup plotters in exchange for sentence reductions was released on June 18, 2023, officials said.
JUNE 17, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on June 14, 2023 sentenced two people to death over the murder of a man in Homna upazila in 2010.
JUNE 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY IN CUMILLA
A court in Cumilla on June 4, 2023 sentenced five people to death for killing a schoolboy in the district on 2012.
MAY 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING BCL LEADER
A court in Laxmipur on May 29, 2023 sentenced eight people to death by hanging for killing Chhatra League leader Mehedi Hasan Jashim by firing in 2013.
MAY 7, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SCHOOL TEACHER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on May 2, 2023 sentenced six people to death in the case of the murder of college teacher Sujon in Barpara area of the city in 2010, besides, each was fined 10,000 taka.
MAY 3, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH IN TRANSPORT LEADER MURDER
A court in Cumilla on April 12, 2023 sentenced three people to death in the murder case of transport leader Rezaul Karim, due to extramarital love.
APRIL 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH, FOUR JAILED OVER RAPE OF COLLEGE STUDENT IN NATORE
A Natore court on April 5, 2023 sentenced six people to death and four others to life in prison in a case over the gang-rape of a college student after abduction in the district’s Singra Upazila.
MARCH 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STEP-BROTHERS
A court in Cumilla sentenced a man to death on 27 March 2023 for the murder of his two step brothers in 2016 in the district’s Sadar Dakshin upazila.
MARCH 21, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 23 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR RAJIB MURDER IN MADARIPUR
A court has sentenced 23 people to death and six to life imprisonment in a case filed over the 2012 murder of Rajib Sardar in Madaripur. Four others were acquitted.
FEBRUARY 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES HELD
Rapid Action Battalion arrested two death-row fugitive war criminals, who committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, from Dhaka's Mohammadpur and Mugda areas on 16 February 2023 night.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN HANGED FOR KILLING DR. NAZNIN, HOUSEHELP
A 42-year-old man has been executed at Kashimpur Central jail for killing Dr. Naznin Akhtar and her housemaid 17 years ago, authorities said on 10 February 2023.