Bangladesh 2017

BANGLADESH: SHAZNEEN KILLER SHAHID HANGED

Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the convicted killer of Scholastica student Shazneen Tasnim Rahman, was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Dhaka.

BANGLADESH: HUSBAND, GIRLFRIEND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE

A Dhaka court awarded death penalty to a man and his girlfriend for killing his wife and slicing the body into pieces in 2012, reports UNB.

BANGLADESH UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 139 SOLDIERS OVER MASSACRE

A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.

BANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES IN GAIBANDHA

A Dhaka court convicted six alleged war criminals, including former Gaibandha lawmaker Abu Saleh Muhammad AbdulAziz Miah alias Ghoramara Aziz, and sentenced them to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS, 2 GET LIFE TERM FOR MURDER

A court in Gazipur sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a girl in 2015.

BANGLADESH: TWO HANGED IN JESSORE FOR MURDERING FREEDOM FIGHTER IN 1994

The authorities in Jessore Central Jail have executed death sentences of two for murdering freedom fighter Monwar Hossain 23 years ago.

BANGLADESH: HUSBAND RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE

A Dhaka court sentenced a man to death in a case filed on charges of killing his wife over a family dispute in 2016.

BANGLADESH: 9 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING COLLEGE STUDENT

A court in Gazipur sentenced nine people to death for killing a college student in 2010.

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER IN CHITTAGONG

A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to death for the murder of his wife.

BANGLADESH: WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING STEPDAUGHTER

A Dhaka court sentenced a woman to death for killing her six-year-old stepdaughter in the capital’s Jatrabari area in 2014.

Bangladesh: 10 sentenced to death in PM Sheikh Hasina's assasination attempt

21 August 2017: Dhaka court has ordered execution of 10 people accussed in the assassination attempt of the current Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina.

BANGLADESH: 2 JMB MEN'S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM

The High Court commuted the death sentence of two activists of the banned Islamist outfit JMB to life imprisonment in a case filed for their involvement in the 2005 series bomb blasts in Shariatpur.

BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GAZIPUR TRADER

A Gazipur court sentenced five people to death for killing a trader in Kaliganj upazila of the district in 2008, reports UNB.

BANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES OISHEE’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM

The High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013.

BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SISTER

A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.

BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE

A Jessore court sentenced a man to death in a case for killing a minor girl after rape in 2014.

BANGLADESH: 23 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING FOUR AL MEN

Twenty three people including a BNP leader have been awarded death penalty for killing four activists of Awami League and its student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League of Araihazar of Narayanganj in 2002.

BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE

A court in Lakshmipur sentenced a man to death for killing his wife five years back, reports BSS.

Two Razakars from Kishoreganj were sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

19 April 2017: Syed Mohammad Hussain alias Hossain, 64, and Muhammad Moslem Pradhan, 66 have been condemned to death for war crimes.

BANGLADESH: MUFTI HANNAN, 2 OTHERS HANGED

The government hanged radical Islamist leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan, for his role in kick-starting militancy on Bangladesh’s soil.

BANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE, ONE TO SPEND LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING STUDENT IN GAZIPUR

A court in Gazipur awarded death sentences to three men and life in prison to a woman for abducting and murdering a university student.

BANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BLOGGER RAJIB MURDER CASE

The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.

BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JOURNO AFTAB MURDER

A Dhaka court sentenced five people to death in connection with the murder of photojournalist of Daily Ittefaq Aftab Ahmed.

BANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN COMILLA FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN

A Comilla district Court convicted three people and awarded death sentence to them for killing a businessman in 2013.

BANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF MUFTI HANNAN

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others in a case filed over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FREEDOM FIGHTER

Bangladesh: 5 Islamist militants sentenced to death for killing Japanese researcher

28 February 2017: five members of a banned militant group were sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court Tuesday for involvement in the slaying of a Japanese agricultural researcher two years ago.

BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH OVER MANIKGANJ FARMER’S MURDER

A district court found one Nurul Islam guilty over the murder of farmer Aynal Hossain (48) in Kafatia village in Manikganj’s sadar upazila.

Bangladesh proposes death penalty for flight disruptions

13 February 2017: the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's cabinet gave the go-ahead for the Civil Aviation Operation Act 2017 to be debated in Parliament.