Bangladesh 2018

BANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2007 MURDER IN CUMILLA

A Cumilla court on 14 November 2018 sentenced five people to death for killing three traders 11 years ago.

BANGLADESH: TWO MORE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR WAR CRIMES

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on 5 November 2018 sentenced two people to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

BANGLADESH: PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW WITH DEATH PENALTY FOR YABA OFFENCES

Parliament has passed the Narcotics Control Act 2018 with a provision for death penalty to the people convicted of yaba manufacture, distribution and trade, bdnews24 reported on 27 October 2018.

BANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY IN KUSHTIA

A Kushtia court on 25 October 2018 sentenced three people to death for killing a schoolboy after abduction in 2011.

BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING MEHERPUR AUTO DRIVER

A court in Meherpur on 23 October 2018 sentenced three people to death and two others to three years’ imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016.

BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR CARRYING YABA, HEROIN

The Narcotics Control Bill 2018 was placed in parliament last night, with provision for death sentence or life-term imprisonment for carrying, producing, trading and using more than five grammes of yaba, and more than 25 grammes of heroin and cocaine, The

BANGLADESH TO HANG 19 FOR DEADLY ATTACK ON 2004 RALLY

BANGLADESH: COURT FINDS DEATH ROW CONVICT INNOCENT THE DAY HE DIES

Khulna jail received on 7 October 2018 the copy of a High Court order that one Obaid Ali be released from death row because the court had found him innocent.

BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENSES APPROVED

The production, smuggling, sale, and use of methamphetamines will be punishable by death in Bangladesh, which has followed the Philippines’ Duterte and launched a brutal war on drugs that has seen more than 200 killed since May.

BANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR KHALAF MURDER CONVICT

The Supreme Court on 7 October 2018 upheld the death penalty for Saiful Islam rejecting his review plea in Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al-Ali murder case.

BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DOUBLE MURDER

A court on September 19, 2018 sentenced five people to death for their involvement in killing a father and his son near Barishur Bazar area in Keraniganj, Dhaka in 1993, reports UNB.

BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HOUSEWIFE MURDER

Three people were sentenced to death on September 12, 2018 for killing a housewife at Bhanuka village in Shariatpur Sadar upazila in 2014, reports UNB.

BANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN

A Gazipur court has sentenced seven people to death for the 2011 murder of businessman Milon Bhuiyan

BANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF 3 IN SAMI MURDER CASE

The High Court upheld the death sentence of three convicts over the killing of minor boy Salman Sami in Dhaka in 2011.

BANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2 GIRLS

A court sentenced a woman to death for killing two girls in 2017 in Chapainawabganj.

BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR 4 WAR CRIMINALS

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 found four Moulvibazar men guilty of committing genocide during the Liberation War and handed down death penalty on all of them.

BANGLADESH - 1 SENTENCE

FOR KILLING WIFE

BANGLADESH - 4 DEATH SENTENCES

FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF GIRL

BANGLADESH - 2 GO TO GALLOWS

FOR HEROIN

BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE

A tribunal in Narayanganj awarded capital punishment to three people for killing a garment worker after rape.

BANGLADESH: 3 TO DIE, 7 GET LIFE IN PRISON FOR KILLING KERANIGANJ BUSINESSMAN

A court awarded death penalty to three people and life imprisonment to seven others for killing a businessman for extortion in Keraniganj in 2006.

BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MADARIPUR TRADER

A Madaripur court has sentenced four people to death for the murder of trader Sohel Mollik.

BANGLADESH: TWO ISLAMISTS ORDERED HANGED FOR MACHETE MURDER OF PROFESSOR

Two Islamists were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a Bangladesh university professor who was hacked to death with a machete two years ago, a prosecutor said.

BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MICROBUS DRIVER

A Netrakona court sentenced four people to death for killing a microbus driver in 2013, reports UNB.

BANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH FOR KILLING A-LEVEL STUDENT IN DHAKA

The High Court handed down death penalty to two people and life-term jail to two others for the killing of Ashikur Rahman Khan Apu, an A-level student, in Dhaka’s Wari area in 2008.

BANGLADESH: 13 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING IN GAZIPUR

A Gazipur court sentenced 13 people to death for killing a man named Billal alias Bilu in Kaliganj upazila of the district.

BANGLADESH: 2 TO WALK GALLOWS IN NATORE FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE

A court in Natore sentenced two young men to death for killing a schoolgirl after rape in Naldanga upazila in 2015.

BANGLADESH: FIVE TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING EXPAT

A Chittagong court sentenced five persons to death in a case filed for killing a Bangladesh-born American citizen in 2011.

BANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR 2011 RAPE, MURDER OF TEENAGED GIRL IN CHITTAGONG

A Chittagong court has sentenced three men to death for raping and murdering a teen seven years ago.