Bangladesh 2023
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News on Bangladesh in 2023
NOVEMBER 30, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER WAR CRIMES IN BAGERHAT
A tribunal has sentenced seven people to death for committing a series of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, in Bagerhat during the 1971 Liberation War.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on November 26, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his daughter at Salanga upazila in the district in 2022.
NOVEMBER 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, CHILD IN JHENIDAHA
Jhenidah court on November 27, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his wife and child in 2016 at Shailkupa upazila in the district.
NOVEMBER 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 2 LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SMUGGLING GOLD IN JASHORE
A Jashore court has sentenced three people to death, two to life-term imprisonment for smuggling 624 bars of gold across the Jashore border in Sharsha.
NOVEMBER 16, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MENTALLY CHALLENGED WOMAN AFTER RAPE
A court in Manikganj on November 15, 2023 sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing a mentally challenged woman after rape at Singair upazila in the district in 2019.
NOVEMBER 15, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN NATORE
A tribunal in Natore on November 15, 2023 convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2018.
NOVEMBER 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH FOR MURDERING HOUSEWIFE IN MANIKGANJ
A court in Bangladesh on November 8, 2023 handed down the death penalty to two people for murdering a housewife in Manikganj in 2020.
NOVEMBER 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES
Two men were handed the death penalty on October 30, 2023 in Natore and Sirajganj on charges of killing their wives.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TOP COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 7 MILITANTS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR 2016 CAFE ATTACK
Bangladesh’s High Court on October 30, 2023 commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.
- OCTOBER 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2016 MURDER OF PREGNANT HABIGANJ HOUSEWIFE
A court in Bangladesh on October 26, 2023 sentenced five members of a family to death for the murder of Ayesha Akhtar in Habiganj’s Chunarughat.
OCTOBER 23, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM FOR RAPING DAUGHTER
A Chattogram court on October 19, 2023 sentenced a father to death for raping his own daughter.
OCTOBER 19, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A court in Chuadanga on October 5, 2023 sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing his wife in Alamdanga upazila of the district.
OCTOBER 17, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES
Courts in Shariatpur and Natore handed death penalties to two men on October 10, 2023 for killing their wives back in 2021 and 2013, respectively.
OCTOBER 3, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RAJBARI SCHOOL STUDENT MURDER
A court in Rajbari on September 27, 2023 sentenced three people to death in the murder case of fourth-grade student Rifad, 12, after abduction in the district.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE
A court in Faridpur on September 25, 2023 sentenced two people to death on the charge of killing a woman after rape at Sadar upazila in 2017.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CHILD AFTER RAPE
A court in Narayanganj on September 25, 2023 sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing a child after rape at Araihazar upazila in 2021.
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER IN CTG
A Chattogram court on August 28, 2023 sentenced five people to death for killing a schoolgirl after rape in Sandwip in 2015.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR INCLUDING WIFE GET DEATH IN EXPATRIATE MURDER
A court in Cumilla on August 30, 2023 sentenced four people, including a woman, to death for the murder of her expatriate husband in Chandina upazila.
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH FOR BURNING WIFE TO DEATH
A court in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, on August 17, 2023 awarded a man death sentence for burning his wife to death in Dewanganj upazila.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EASY-BIKE DRIVER
A court in Bangladesh on August 30, 2023 sentenced three people to death for killing an easybike driver in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga.
AUGUST 14, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN SYLHET
A Sylhet court on August 6, 2023 sentenced a man to death and fined him Tk10,000 for killing his wife in Gowainghat upazila of the district in 2021.
- AUGUST 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN 22 YEARS AGO
A Syllhet Divisional Special Judge Court on July 24, 2023 sentenced four people to death for killing a man in Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet 22 years ago.
- AUGUST 1, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH HANGS TWO CONVICTS IN 2006 MURDER OF RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY’S PROF TAHER
The Rajshahi Central Jail authorities on July 27, 2023 hanged two death row convicts in the 2006 murder of Professor S Taher Ahmed, a teacher of Rajshahi University’s geology and mining department.
- JULY 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 'WAR CRIMES'
A local court in Bangladesh, formed to try "war criminals," on July 20, 2023 delivered death sentences to four men for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh independence war in 1971.
JULY 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRADER IN GOPALGANJ
Three persons on July 10, 2023 were awarded with death penalty for killing a trader named Lutfor Rahman in Tungipara of Gopalganj.
JULY 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE BROTHERS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER
A Cumilla court has sentenced three brothers to death penalty for beating their father to death at Monohorganj of the district. They were also fined Tk 20,000 each.
- JULY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2001 MURDER OF GARDENER IN DHAKA
A Dhaka court has handed down the death sentence to two people in a decades-old case over the murder of a nursery gardener in Dhaka's Cantonment area.
- JUNE 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES IN JASHORE
A war crimes tribunal has sentenced four people to death for killings in Jashore during the 1971 Liberation War.
JUNE 22, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 5 TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER IN CUMILLA
A court has handed down the death penalty to seven people and sentenced five others to life in prison for the murder of a plumber in Cumilla in 2006.
JUNE 19, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: EXECUTIONER WHO HANGED 26 CONVICTS WALKS OUT OF PRISON
A jailed Bangladeshi hangman who executed more than two dozen fellow prisoners including killers and coup plotters in exchange for sentence reductions was released on June 18, 2023, officials said.