BANGLADESH: FIVE TO GO TO GALLOWS IN JL LEADER MURDER CASE

Sirajganj, Bangladesh, District and session judge Salma Bhanu sentenced BNP activists Prince, Shamim, 22, Hitler, 23, Khaleq and another person named Shamim, 23, all from Chalita Danga village of Kazipur upazila, to death and fined them Tk 10,000 for the murder of Jubo League leader Imrul Kaiser Kanak in Kazipur upazila on October 27, 2001, over a political rivalry. Prince, Khaleq and Razzaq were tried in absentia.