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
NOVEMBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BUS DRIVER, TWO EMPLOYEES TO DIE FOR KILLING NSU STUDENT
The driver and two other staff of a Hanif Paribahan bus on 1st November 2020 were sentenced to death for killing North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel.
NOVEMBER 4, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE OVER DOWRY IN BOGRA
A man, who lived with two wives, was sentenced to death on 29 October 2020 after he beat his second wife to death over dowry in Bogra in 2016.
- NOVEMBER 3, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: CONDEMNED CONVICT HANGED AT KASHIMPUR JAIL FOR MURDER
A condemned convict was hanged on 1st November 2020 night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter in 2006.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KHULNA VAN PULLER MURDER
A Khulna court on 29 October 2020 sentenced three people to death for killing a van puller in Khulna.
OCTOBER 18, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2012 GANG RAPE OF TEEN
A Bangladesh court on 15 October 2020 sentenced five men to death for the 2012 gang rape of a 15-year-old girl, amid growing public anger over rampant sexual violence.
OCTOBER 15, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KHULNA WOMAN
Khulna court on 12 October 2020 sentenced three people including husband to death for killing a woman at Badurgaccha village in Dumuria upazila in 2016.
OCTOBER 14, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: PRESIDENT ABDUL HAMID SIGNS ORDINANCE ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN RAPE CASES
Bangladesh President Md Abdul Hamid on 13 October 2020 signed an ordinance approving the death penalty for rapists, amid nationwide protests after a series of recent sexual assaults in the country.
OCTOBER 13, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD AFTER ABDUCTION
A tribunal in Joypurhat on 12 October 2020 sentenced five people to death for killing a two and a half years old girl after abduction in 2015.
OCTOBER 12, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: CABINET APPROVES INCLUSION OF DEATH PENALTY IN ANTI-RAPE LAW
The cabinet on 12 October 2020 gave its approval for the amendment of the Prevention of Women & Children Repression Act-2000 to include death penalty for rapists.
OCTOBER 6, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 3 CONVICTS
The Supreme Court on 6 October 2020 commuted the death penalties of three convicts to imprisonment till natural death in the Gopal Krishna Muhuri murder case.
- OCTOBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR BURNING WIFE TO DEATH
In Rangpur, a court on 29 September 2020 sentenced Mossarraf Hossain to death for burning his wife to death after failing to realise dowry from her, about 14 years back in Monthona area of Rangpur city.
OCTOBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO HOUSEMAIDS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING EX-EDEN COLLEGE PRINCIPAL
A Dhaka court on 4 October 2020 handed down the death sentence to two housemaids for the murder of former Eden College principal Mahfuza Chowdhury Parveen in 2019.