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
DECEMBER 12, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR TO DIE FOR KILLING AUTO-RICKSHAW DRIVER
Four people have been sentenced to death and two others received life term for the 2009 murder of auto-rickshaw driver Md Rana.
NOVEMBER 29, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SHAZNEEN KILLER SHAHID HANGED
Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the convicted killer of Scholastica student Shazneen Tasnim Rahman, was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Dhaka.
NOVEMBER 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HUSBAND, GIRLFRIEND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court awarded death penalty to a man and his girlfriend for killing his wife and slicing the body into pieces in 2012, reports UNB.
- NOVEMBER 27, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 139 SOLDIERS OVER MASSACRE
A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES IN GAIBANDHA
A Dhaka court convicted six alleged war criminals, including former Gaibandha lawmaker Abu Saleh Muhammad AbdulAziz Miah alias Ghoramara Aziz, and sentenced them to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
NOVEMBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS, 2 GET LIFE TERM FOR MURDER
A court in Gazipur sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a girl in 2015.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO HANGED IN JESSORE FOR MURDERING FREEDOM FIGHTER IN 1994
The authorities in Jessore Central Jail have executed death sentences of two for murdering freedom fighter Monwar Hossain 23 years ago.
NOVEMBER 15, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HUSBAND RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court sentenced a man to death in a case filed on charges of killing his wife over a family dispute in 2016.
OCTOBER 25, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING COLLEGE STUDENT
A court in Gazipur sentenced nine people to death for killing a college student in 2010.
OCTOBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to death for the murder of his wife.
- OCTOBER 3, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING STEPDAUGHTER
A Dhaka court sentenced a woman to death for killing her six-year-old stepdaughter in the capital’s Jatrabari area in 2014.
- AUGUST 21, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh: 10 sentenced to death in PM Sheikh Hasina's assasination attempt
21 August 2017: Dhaka court has ordered execution of 10 people accussed in the assassination attempt of the current Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina.