BANGLADESH: HC ACQUITS 3, COMMUTES 7 DEATH SENTENCES

justices Mohammad Fazlur Raham and Bhabani Prasad Singha of the Bangladeshi High Court acquitted three for murdering ward commissioner Saidur Rahman Newton in Dhanmondi area on May 10, 2002. Of the 10 convicts condemned to death by the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on May 24 2006, 'Abbas' alias Killer Abbas, Ibrahim Khalil and Zakir Hossain Khan were acquitted. The death sentences of Mohammad Khorsed, Shahadat Hossain, Munir Hossain, Kala Jahangir, Kazi Mohammad Ismail, Kazi Towfiq Alam Pial and Sadequl Islam Chowdhury Sagor were commuted to life in jail. All seven are on the run.