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
OCTOBER 27, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MADARIPUR MURDER CASE
A court in Madaripur on 19 October 2022 sentenced three people to death and six others to life imprisonment for killing a trader at Sadar upazila in the district in 2003.
- OCTOBER 25, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 10 GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THREE CATTLE TRADERS IN BANDARBAN
A court in Bangladesh sentenced 10 defendants to death on October 24, 2022 in the case of the murders of three cattle traders among four people on the Alikadam-Thanchi route in the Bandarban hill district.
OCTOBER 20, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: GIRL STRANGLED TO DEATH AFTER RAPE, FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Bangladesh on 18 October 2022 sentenced four people to death in the case of strangulation of a girl after rape in Narayanganj. Meanwhile, one person has been sentenced to life and one person has been acquitted.
OCTOBER 10, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING A MYMENSINGH AL LEADER
A Dhaka court on 10 October 2022 issued the death penalty to seven persons, including a union parishad chairman, for killing a local Awami League leader in Mymensingh’s Gauripur upazila in 2020.
OCTOBER 4, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING A NARAYANGANJ FACTORY WORKER OVER TK 500
A court has sentenced a man to death and two others to life in prison for the murder of Mizan Sikdar Mishor, a worker at a dyeing factory at the Narayanganj Port.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES TRIBUNAL SENTENCES KHALILUR TO DEATH
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on September 13, 2022 sentenced Mohammad Khalilur Rahman from Durgapur Upazilla of Netrakona to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2-YR-OLD AFTER ABDUCTION IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on September 27, 2022 sentenced a man to death in a case filed for killing a two-year-old boy after an abduction.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 4 MILITANTS IN JAPANESE NATIONAL KUNIO HOSHI'S MUDER
The High Court has affirmed the death sentences for four militants of the outlawed Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, or JMB, for the murder of a Japanese national in Rangpur in 2015.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH FOR MURDER IN BRAHMANBARIA
A Brahmanbaria court on 12 September 2022 sentenced three people to death and jailed another for life over the murder of Sharif Khan, a native of Akhaura's Chanpur village, in 2015.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 MURDER IN CHANDPUR
Four men were sentenced to death on 23 August 2022 for the murder of a woman in Chandpur’s Matlab South Upazila in 2013.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING TEENAGER IN KHULNA
A Khulna tribunal on 7 September 2022 sentenced five persons to death in addition to fining Tk20,000 to each for raping a teenage girl in Khalishpur of the district in 2011.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 JMB MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on 17 August 2022 sentenced five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants to death in a case filed for bombings at two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base in Chattogram in 2015.