BANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCES FOR 1975 KILLING OF BANGLADESHI LEADER
the Bangladeshi Supreme Court rejected final appeals by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of the country’s independence leader in a military coup
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the Bangladeshi Supreme Court rejected final appeals by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of the country’s independence leader in a military coup. Seven others were sentenced to death in absentia. In 1998, a Dhaka court sentenced the men to death for killing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Legal News, 19/11/2009)
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