Bangladesh 2021
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News on Bangladesh in 2021
FEBRUARY 18, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR 10 MILITANTS
A Bangladeshi top court on 17 February 2021 upheld the death sentence of 10 militants in a two-decade-old case related to the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
FEBRUARY 17, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FOUR OF A FAMILY IN KURIGRAM
Kurigram District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Mannan on 16 February 2021 sentenced six people to death for killing four members of a family in 2014.
FEBRUARY 16, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES 5 TO DEATH FOR KILLING US BLOGGER AVIJIT ROY
A court in Bangladesh on 16 February 2021 sentenced five men to death and one to life in jail for hacking a secular blogger to death six years ago in Dhaka.
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BANGLADESH: EIGHT ISLAMISTS TO HANG OVER MURDER OF PUBLISHER
Eight Islamic extremists were on 10 February 2021 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a publisher, as the Muslim-majority nation grapples with tensions between religious hardliners and secularists.
FEBRUARY 9, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMY SOLDIER MURDER
A Cumilla court on 8 February 2021 sentenced four people to death and another to ten years jail in a case filed over murder of an army soldier in 2016.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
A Shariatpur court on 3 February 2021 sentenced two people to death for killing a minor girl after rape at Sakhipur village under Bhedarganj upazila, three years back.
FEBRUARY 2, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES OF 8 CONVICTS IN 2 MURDER CASES
The High Court have recently confirmed the death penalty of eight convicts in Bangladesh in two separate murder cases in Keraniganj of Dhaka and Faridpur, The Daily Star reported on 1st February 2021.
JANUARY 20, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MANIKGANJ FOR KILLING UP MEMBER
A Manikganj court on 18 January 2021 sentenced five people to death and acquitted thirteen others in a case filed over the murder of union parishad member Ashraf Ali in Ghior upazila of Manikganj in 2013.
JANUARY 18, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-SON IN KAKRAIL
A Dhaka court on 17 January 2021 sentenced three people to death in the case filed over the murder of a woman and her son in Dhaka’s Kakrail area on 1 November 2017.
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BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SCHOOLGIRL AFTER RAPE IN 2012
Two people on 4 January 2021 were sentenced to death for raping and killing a minor in Madaripur.