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
JANUARY 23, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING OF BUSINESSMAN IN BRAHMANBARIA
A Brahmanbaria court on 6 January 2020 sentenced four people to death for killing a businessman from Old Dhaka in 2014.
JANUARY 22, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 EX-COPS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING
A Bangladesh court sentenced five former police officials to death on 20 January 2020 for opening fire on a motorcade of then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina 31 years ago, killing 24 of her supporters during an anti-government rally.
JANUARY 21, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 10 ISLAMISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2001 BOMBING
A Bangladeshi court sentenced 10 Islamic militants to death on 20 January 2020 for the bombing at communist party rally two decades ago that killed five people.
JANUARY 14, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS QAISAR’S DEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court on 14 January 2020 upheld the death sentence of Jatiya Party leader Syed Mohammad Qaisar for his crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Liberation War of the country in 1971.
- JANUARY 1, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
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DECEMBER 5, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE JMB MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN OPERATIVE OF THE SAME OUTFIT IN CHAPAINAWABGANJ
A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced three members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) to death and four others to life in prison for killing an operative of the same group in 2012.
- NOVEMBER 27, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 7 MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CAFE ATTACK
A special anti-terrorism tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced seven members of a banned militant group to death on 27 November 2019 for their involvement in an attack on a Dhaka cafe that killed more than 20 people, mostly foreigners.
NOVEMBER 6, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF JAMAAT LEADER
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on 31 October 2019 upheld a death sentence against a top Islamist leader for war crimes in a move that lawyers said meant he would almost certainly be executed in the coming months.
OCTOBER 24, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TEENAGER IN HARASSMENT CASE
The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on 24 October 2019 for the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.
OCTOBER 23, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FARIDPUR TRADER
A court in Faridpur on 20 October 2019 sentenced four men to death for murdering trader Bikash Saha in Bhanga upazila two years ago.
- OCTOBER 22, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 7 GET DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE IN JOYPURHAT
A Joypurhat tribunal on 22 October 2019 convicted seven people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman after raping in Akkelpur Upazila in 2016.
OCTOBER 21, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 12 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN KISHOREGANJ
A Dhaka tribunal on 21 October 2019 sentenced 12 people to death for killing a man in Kishoreganj in 2015.