Bangladesh 2020
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News on Bangladesh in 2020
DECEMBER 22, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHAMIUL MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court on 20 December 2020 sentenced a woman and another one to death for killing her son Shamiul.
DECEMBER 17, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 8 TO WALK THE GALLOWS FOR KILLING 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL AFTER RAPE IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court on 14 December 2020 sentenced eight people to death in a case for gang-raping and killing a nine-year old girl in Chittagong.
DECEMBER 15, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 CONVICTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RAPE CASE ACQUITTED
Netrokona High Court on 14 December 2020 acquitted five convicts who were sentenced to death for gang-raping a teenager.
DECEMBER 14, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 10 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 5 GET LIFE TERM FOR KILLING UP CHAIRMAN
A Chattogram court on 13 December 2020 sentenced 10 people to death and five others to life imprisonment in the murder case filed over killing Satkania Sonakania union parishad's former chairman Amjad Hossain 22 years ago.
DECEMBER 9, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WIFE, FOUR OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN
A Khagrachhari court sentenced five people to death on 3 December 2020 for plotting to kill a man in Guimara, Khagrachhari.
DECEMBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING UP CHAIRMAN ATIK ULLAH
A Dhaka court on 2 December 2020 sentenced seven people to death for killing Konda union parishad chairman and Awami League leader Atik Ullah Chowdhury.
- DECEMBER 2, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN NARAYANGANJ
A court in Narayanganj on 29 November 2020 sentenced three people to death and one to ten years in prison for killing five-year-old child Shoaib Hossain at Sonargaon in Narayanganj.
NOVEMBER 26, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2019 RAPE, MURDER IN SHARIATPUR
A Shariatpur tribunal has sentenced three people to death for the 2019 murder of a housewife after gang-rape in Damudya Upazila.
NOVEMBER 17, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY OF THREE UPHELD FOR MURDERING PREGNANT WOMAN
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on 17 November 2020 upheld death sentence for three people in a case lodged over the murder of a pregnant woman on Jahangirnagar University campus in 2000.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STUDENT IN KHULNA
A court in Khulna on 9 November 2020 sentenced a man to death for killing a college student in 2012.
NOVEMBER 11, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BILL SEEKING DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE LANDS IN PARLIAMENT
The Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced in parliament on 7 November 2020, stipulating the death penalty as the maximum punishment in rape cases.
NOVEMBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BUS DRIVER, TWO EMPLOYEES TO DIE FOR KILLING NSU STUDENT
The driver and two other staff of a Hanif Paribahan bus on 1st November 2020 were sentenced to death for killing North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE OVER DOWRY IN BOGRA
A man, who lived with two wives, was sentenced to death on 29 October 2020 after he beat his second wife to death over dowry in Bogra in 2016.
- NOVEMBER 3, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: CONDEMNED CONVICT HANGED AT KASHIMPUR JAIL FOR MURDER
A condemned convict was hanged on 1st November 2020 night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter in 2006.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KHULNA VAN PULLER MURDER
A Khulna court on 29 October 2020 sentenced three people to death for killing a van puller in Khulna.
OCTOBER 18, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2012 GANG RAPE OF TEEN
A Bangladesh court on 15 October 2020 sentenced five men to death for the 2012 gang rape of a 15-year-old girl, amid growing public anger over rampant sexual violence.
OCTOBER 15, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KHULNA WOMAN
Khulna court on 12 October 2020 sentenced three people including husband to death for killing a woman at Badurgaccha village in Dumuria upazila in 2016.
OCTOBER 14, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: PRESIDENT ABDUL HAMID SIGNS ORDINANCE ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN RAPE CASES
Bangladesh President Md Abdul Hamid on 13 October 2020 signed an ordinance approving the death penalty for rapists, amid nationwide protests after a series of recent sexual assaults in the country.
- OCTOBER 13, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD AFTER ABDUCTION
A tribunal in Joypurhat on 12 October 2020 sentenced five people to death for killing a two and a half years old girl after abduction in 2015.
OCTOBER 12, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: CABINET APPROVES INCLUSION OF DEATH PENALTY IN ANTI-RAPE LAW
The cabinet on 12 October 2020 gave its approval for the amendment of the Prevention of Women & Children Repression Act-2000 to include death penalty for rapists.
- OCTOBER 6, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 3 CONVICTS
The Supreme Court on 6 October 2020 commuted the death penalties of three convicts to imprisonment till natural death in the Gopal Krishna Muhuri murder case.
- OCTOBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR BURNING WIFE TO DEATH
In Rangpur, a court on 29 September 2020 sentenced Mossarraf Hossain to death for burning his wife to death after failing to realise dowry from her, about 14 years back in Monthona area of Rangpur city.
OCTOBER 5, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO HOUSEMAIDS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING EX-EDEN COLLEGE PRINCIPAL
A Dhaka court on 4 October 2020 handed down the death sentence to two housemaids for the murder of former Eden College principal Mahfuza Chowdhury Parveen in 2019.
- OCTOBER 1, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN KURIGRAM
A Court in Bangladesh on 29 September 2020 sentenced Abdus Sattar, 55, to death for murder, Kurigram correspondent Ariful Islam reported citing Public Prosecutor Abraham Lincon.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE, DAUGHTER IN BHOLA
A Bhola court on 29 September 2020 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife and minor daughter in Daulatkhan upazila in 2017.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE IN BARISHAL
A Barishal court on 24 September 2020 convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Hijla upazila in 2013 over dowry.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KHULNA MADRASA STUDENT
A Khulna court on 2 September 2020 sentenced four persons to death for killing a Madrasa student -- Musa Sikder.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING COUPLE FOR LAND PROPERTY IN TANGAIL
A tribunal in Dhaka on 13 September 2020 sentenced six people to death for killing a couple -- a retired government primary school teacher and his wife -- in a bid to grab land property in Sadar upazila of Tangail in 2017.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RAJBARI FOR GANGRAPE OF FEMALE DOCTOR
A court in Rajbari district on 2 September 2020 sentenced three accused to death in a gang rape case filed by a female doctor.
APRIL 13, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BANGABANDHU’S KILLER MAJED HANGED
The self-confessed and convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Abdul Majed was hanged on 12 April 2020 at Keraniganj Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security.