Bangladesh 2023
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News on Bangladesh in 2023
JUNE 17, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on June 14, 2023 sentenced two people to death over the murder of a man in Homna upazila in 2010.
JUNE 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY IN CUMILLA
A court in Cumilla on June 4, 2023 sentenced five people to death for killing a schoolboy in the district on 2012.
MAY 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING BCL LEADER
A court in Laxmipur on May 29, 2023 sentenced eight people to death by hanging for killing Chhatra League leader Mehedi Hasan Jashim by firing in 2013.
MAY 7, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SCHOOL TEACHER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on May 2, 2023 sentenced six people to death in the case of the murder of college teacher Sujon in Barpara area of the city in 2010, besides, each was fined 10,000 taka.
MAY 3, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH IN TRANSPORT LEADER MURDER
A court in Cumilla on April 12, 2023 sentenced three people to death in the murder case of transport leader Rezaul Karim, due to extramarital love.
APRIL 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH, FOUR JAILED OVER RAPE OF COLLEGE STUDENT IN NATORE
A Natore court on April 5, 2023 sentenced six people to death and four others to life in prison in a case over the gang-rape of a college student after abduction in the district’s Singra Upazila.
MARCH 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STEP-BROTHERS
A court in Cumilla sentenced a man to death on 27 March 2023 for the murder of his two step brothers in 2016 in the district’s Sadar Dakshin upazila.
MARCH 21, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 23 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR RAJIB MURDER IN MADARIPUR
A court has sentenced 23 people to death and six to life imprisonment in a case filed over the 2012 murder of Rajib Sardar in Madaripur. Four others were acquitted.
FEBRUARY 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES HELD
Rapid Action Battalion arrested two death-row fugitive war criminals, who committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, from Dhaka's Mohammadpur and Mugda areas on 16 February 2023 night.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN HANGED FOR KILLING DR. NAZNIN, HOUSEHELP
A 42-year-old man has been executed at Kashimpur Central jail for killing Dr. Naznin Akhtar and her housemaid 17 years ago, authorities said on 10 February 2023.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE OVER DOWRY IN SATKHIRA
A Satkhira court on 5 February 2023 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2014 for dowry.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES HUSBAND'S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
A Bangladesh High Court on 29 January 2023 commuted the death penalty of Abdul Jalil to life imprisonment in a case filed over killing his wife Malati Begum in Barguna in 2003.
- JANUARY 31, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH ARRESTS TWO FUGITIVES CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested two fugitives who were handed the death sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Mymensingh during the Liberation War.
JANUARY 24, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SON AMONG SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOUSEWIFE'S MURDER IN NOAKHALI
A court has handed down the death penalty to seven people for the murder of a woman in Noakhali in 2020. One of the convicts is the victim's son.
JANUARY 23, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN MYMENSINGH
The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced six people to death in Mymensingh's Trishal upazila for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
JANUARY 22, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW CONVICT HANGED IN KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged at the Kashimpur Central High Security Jail in Gazipur on 22 January 2023 night.
- JANUARY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW INMATE HANGED IN KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged on 8 January 2023 at the Kashimpur Central High Security Jail in Gazipur. In a robbery and rape case, Saiful Islam Rafique, alias Saidul Islam Rafique, 50, was condemned to death.