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
MAY 17, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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.
- MARCH 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN COMILLA FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN
A Comilla district Court convicted three people and awarded death sentence to them for killing a businessman in 2013.
- MARCH 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF MUFTI HANNAN
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others in a case filed over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
- MARCH 15, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FREEDOM FIGHTER
FEBRUARY 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: 5 Islamist militants sentenced to death for killing Japanese researcher
28 February 2017: five members of a banned militant group were sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court Tuesday for involvement in the slaying of a Japanese agricultural researcher two years ago.
FEBRUARY 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH OVER MANIKGANJ FARMER’S MURDER
A district court found one Nurul Islam guilty over the murder of farmer Aynal Hossain (48) in Kafatia village in Manikganj’s sadar upazila.