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 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT COMMUTES ULFA LEADER'S DEATH SENTENCE
A Bangladeshi High Court on December 18, 2024 commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN PANCHAGARH
A Panchagarh court on November 26, 2024 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of his wife at Atwari upazila in the district.
NOVEMBER 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN, HIS TWO SONS AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN IN SYLHET
A court in Sylhet sentenced a father and his two sons to death on November 25, 2024 for the murder of a businessman in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet district.
NOVEMBER 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MIRPUR BANGLA COLLEGE MURDER CASE
A Dhaka special court on November 19, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Mirpur Bangla College student Nurul Amin in 2022.
NOVEMBER 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING TEEN IN KISHOREGANJ
A Kishoreganj court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of a teenager over a mobile phone at Pakundia upazila in 2008.
NOVEMBER 4, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER, DAUGHTER IN HABIGANJ IN 2021
A Habiganj court on October 29, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing a woman and her daughter in 2021.
- OCTOBER 29, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN KHULNA
A Bangladeshi court has handed down the death penalty to five men over the 2016 murder of Jahid Hossain in Khulna.
OCTOBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LALMONIRHAT MURDER CASE
A court in Lalmonirhat on October 28, 2024 sentenced two persons to death in the much-discussed murder case filed in 2020 at Hatibandha Upazila in the district.
JULY 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX TO BE HANGED IN MURDER CASE IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court has sentenced six people to death and 10 others to life term imprisonment for killing a man named Nurul Haque over land dispute in Brahmanpara upazila of the district in 2011.
JULY 9, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH, 10 LIFE SENTENCES FOR 2012 MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AL LEADER IQBAL AZAD
A tribunal has sentenced four people to death and 10 to life in prison for the 2012 murder of Sarail Upazila Awami League leader Iqbal Azad in Brahmanbaria.
JUNE 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER IN NARAIL
A court in Narail on June 12, 2024 sentenced three people to death for killing a man in Lohagara upazila of the district in 2018.
- JUNE 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: YOUTH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CTG
A Chattogram court on June 9, 2024 sentenced a youth to death for killing a five-year-old child at Mirsari upazila in the district in 2010.