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
MARCH 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTY
Bangladesh: 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.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh proposes death penalty for flight disruptions
13 February 2017: the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's cabinet gave the go-ahead for the Civil Aviation Operation Act 2017 to be debated in Parliament.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING VAN-PULLER IN KUSHTIA
A Kushtia court handed over death sentence to 6 accused in a case filed over killing a van-puller named
JANUARY 30, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH, 12 GET LIFE OVER BARGUNA FISHERMEN MURDERS
A Barguna court awarded death sentence to two accused in a case filed over the murder of two fishermen by drowning in the district. The court also gave life imprisonment to 12 others.
- JANUARY 25, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING RANGPUR BUSINESSMAN
A Rangpur court sentenced four people to death and another one to three years’ imprisonment over the
JANUARY 24, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TWO IN CHUADANGA
A court in Chuadanga sentenced a man to death for killing a woman and her daughter in Railpara area of the district town in 2009.
- JANUARY 18, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THAKURGAON MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A man in Thakurgaon has been given a death sentence after he was found guilty of murdering his father.
JANUARY 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 26 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARAYANGANJ KILLINGS
twenty-six people, including a former city councillor extradited from India, were sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court for brutal murders of seven persons in Narayanganj in 2014.