BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHERPUR

a court in Sherpur, Bangladesh, sentenced Sultan Ahmed, 35, of Bazitkhela village in Sadar upazila, to death. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge M Murshid Alam found he strangled his wife Marjina Begum, 30, on June 30, 2006, for refusing to bring dowry from her parents. Six others were acquitted.