BANGLADESH: 12 MEN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN BAGERHAT

twelve people were sentenced to death, one of them in absentia, for the murder of a shrimp gher owner out of enmity at Rampal, Bangladesh, about seven years ago. Additional District and Session’s Judge Rezaul Karim handed down the death penalty to Meer Mohammad, Salam Laskar, Akter Mollah, Mokaddes Mollah, Rabbani Kazi, Miskat Gazi, Islam Laskar, Liton Sheikh, Jumman Ali, Shefat Sheikh, Alfaz Sheikh and Hafizur Rahman (in absentia).