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
JULY 24, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 JMB MEN'S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM
The High Court commuted the death sentence of two activists of the banned Islamist outfit JMB to life imprisonment in a case filed for their involvement in the 2005 series bomb blasts in Shariatpur.
- JULY 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GAZIPUR TRADER
A Gazipur court sentenced five people to death for killing a trader in Kaliganj upazila of the district in 2008, reports UNB.
JUNE 5, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES OISHEE’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
The High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013.
JUNE 4, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SISTER
A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.
MAY 30, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE
A Jessore court sentenced a man to death in a case for killing a minor girl after rape in 2014.
- MAY 17, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 23 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING FOUR AL MEN
Twenty three people including a BNP leader have been awarded death penalty for killing four activists of Awami League and its student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League of Araihazar of Narayanganj in 2002.
MAY 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE
A court in Lakshmipur sentenced a man to death for killing his wife five years back, reports BSS.
- APRIL 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Two Razakars from Kishoreganj were sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
19 April 2017: Syed Mohammad Hussain alias Hossain, 64, and Muhammad Moslem Pradhan, 66 have been condemned to death for war crimes.
- APRIL 13, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MUFTI HANNAN, 2 OTHERS HANGED
The government hanged radical Islamist leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan, for his role in kick-starting militancy on Bangladesh’s soil.
- APRIL 6, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE, ONE TO SPEND LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING STUDENT IN GAZIPUR
A court in Gazipur awarded death sentences to three men and life in prison to a woman for abducting and murdering a university student.
APRIL 2, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BLOGGER RAJIB MURDER CASE
The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.
- MARCH 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JOURNO AFTAB MURDER
A Dhaka court sentenced five people to death in connection with the murder of photojournalist of Daily Ittefaq Aftab Ahmed.