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, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH IN BUSINESSMAN MURDER CASE
A court in Gopalganj on 26 October 2021 convicted five people and sentenced them to death in a businessman murder case.
OCTOBER 21, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A policeman has been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing his wife, Nepalnews reported on 6 October 2021.
- OCTOBER 20, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MYMENSINGH MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MOTHER’S MURDER
A Mymensingh court on 11 October 2021 sentenced 50-year-old Md Mustafa to death for the murder of his mother, 70-year-old Mariam Begum.
OCTOBER 12, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF COLLEGE STUDENT
A court in Bangladesh on 12 October 2021 sentenced five people to death and acquitted nine others in a case filed for killing of college student Raju Ahmmed in Rajshahi.
OCTOBER 9, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH OVER 2017 COCAINE HAUL IN KHULNA
A Khulna court on 8 October 2021 awarded the death penalty unto a man in a 2017 narcotics case filed over the recovery of contraband cocaine worth around Tk22 crore.
OCTOBER 6, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: RAPE, MURDER CONVICTS EXECUTED AT JESSORE CENTRAL JAIL
Two death-row convicts in a case filed for killing two women after raping them in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district were executed on 4 October 2001 night.
OCTOBER 5, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MIZAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CTG COURT BOMBING
Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Tribunal on 3 October 2021 awarded death sentence to Zahidul Islam Mizan alias "Boma Mizan" in a case filed over killing two people in a suicide bombing on a police check-post on the premises of a Chattogram court in 2005.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BUS SUPERVISOR GETS DEATH PENALTY IN DRUG CASE IN GAIBANDHA
A Gaibandha court on 17 August 2021 morning sentenced a man to death in a case over his involvement in smuggling heroin.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF TWO FOR THE RAPE AND MURDER OF A CHILD
The Supreme Court on 21 September 2021 upheld the death sentence of two persons convicted for the abduction, rape and murder of Tania, a child from Patuakhali.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 3 CONVICTS TO LIFE-TERM IMPRISONMENT
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 18 August 2021 upheld death sentence of an adult man and commuted three other youths’ death sentence to life-term imprisonment finding them guilty of raping and killing a girl.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LGBTQ ACTIVISTS
A court in Bangladesh on 31 August 2021 sentenced six members of a banned group to death and acquitted two others in connection with the murder of two LGBTQ rights activists five years ago.
JULY 17, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ISLAMIST EXTREMIST EXECUTED FOR 2005 BOMB ATTACK
Bangladesh has executed a hardline Islamist for a 2005 bomb attack in which eight people died.