Bangladesh 2024
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News on Bangladesh in 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT COMMUTES ULFA LEADER'S DEATH SENTENCE
A Bangladeshi High Court on December 18, 2024 commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN PANCHAGARH
A Panchagarh court on November 26, 2024 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of his wife at Atwari upazila in the district.
NOVEMBER 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN, HIS TWO SONS AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN IN SYLHET
A court in Sylhet sentenced a father and his two sons to death on November 25, 2024 for the murder of a businessman in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet district.
NOVEMBER 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MIRPUR BANGLA COLLEGE MURDER CASE
A Dhaka special court on November 19, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Mirpur Bangla College student Nurul Amin in 2022.
NOVEMBER 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING TEEN IN KISHOREGANJ
A Kishoreganj court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of a teenager over a mobile phone at Pakundia upazila in 2008.
NOVEMBER 4, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER, DAUGHTER IN HABIGANJ IN 2021
A Habiganj court on October 29, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing a woman and her daughter in 2021.
- OCTOBER 29, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN KHULNA
A Bangladeshi court has handed down the death penalty to five men over the 2016 murder of Jahid Hossain in Khulna.
OCTOBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LALMONIRHAT MURDER CASE
A court in Lalmonirhat on October 28, 2024 sentenced two persons to death in the much-discussed murder case filed in 2020 at Hatibandha Upazila in the district.
JULY 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX TO BE HANGED IN MURDER CASE IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court has sentenced six people to death and 10 others to life term imprisonment for killing a man named Nurul Haque over land dispute in Brahmanpara upazila of the district in 2011.
JULY 9, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH, 10 LIFE SENTENCES FOR 2012 MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AL LEADER IQBAL AZAD
A tribunal has sentenced four people to death and 10 to life in prison for the 2012 murder of Sarail Upazila Awami League leader Iqbal Azad in Brahmanbaria.
JUNE 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER IN NARAIL
A court in Narail on June 12, 2024 sentenced three people to death for killing a man in Lohagara upazila of the district in 2018.
- JUNE 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: YOUTH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CTG
A Chattogram court on June 9, 2024 sentenced a youth to death for killing a five-year-old child at Mirsari upazila in the district in 2010.
JUNE 10, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR KILLING EASYBIKE DRIVER IN JAMALPUR
A court in Jamalpur on June 9, 2024 sentenced four people to death for the murder of an Easybike driver in the district's Sarishabari upazila.
JUNE 4, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH PENALTY IN JASHORE MURDER CASE
A court in Jashore on May 20, 2024 sentenced five people to death for killing an easy-bike driver at Sadar upazila of the district in 2011.
- MAY 29, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: BOTSWANA NATIONAL GETS DEATH PENALTY IN NARCOTICS CASE
A Dhaka court on May 27, 2024 awarded death penalty to Botswana national Lesedi Molapisi in a narcotics case filled over drug smuggling.
MAY 21, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING SHOP EMPLOYEE IN RAJSHAHI
A Rajshahi court on May 15, 2024 sentenced two persons to death for killing an employee of a mobile phone shop in the district in 2021.
MAY 16, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT LIMITS SOLITARY FOR DEATH ROW INMATES
A Bangladesh court ruled on May 13, 2024 that death row prisoners could not be held in solitary confinement until their appeals had been exhausted, in what lawyers called a major rights victory for inmates.
MAY 14, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 TO DIE FOR KILLING JUBO LEAGUE LEADER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on May 12, 2024 sentenced nine people to death for killing Jubo League leader Jamal Uddin alias Bakka Jamal in Chauddagram upazila on the district.
- MAY 2, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HABIGANJ MURDER CASE
A court in Habiganj has sentenced seven people to death and 10 others to life imprisonment on the charge of killing a man at Sadar upazila in 2003.
APRIL 24, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS NIECE IN NATORE
A tribunal has sentenced a man to death over the rape and murder of his niece, a student in 12th grade, in Natore’s Singra Upazila.
APRIL 23, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRIO IN CTG
A Chattogram court on April 18, 2024 awarded death penalty to two men for killing three members of a family in city's Biyazid Bostami Thana area 19 years ago.
- APRIL 3, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CUMILLA
A court in Cumilla on April 1, 2024 sentenced two brothers to death in a case filed over the murder of a man in Titas upazila of the district in 2020.
- APRIL 1, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4, INCLUDING WIFE, SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SAUDI EXPATRIATE OVER EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR
A Cumilla court on March 27, 2024 sentenced a woman and three other people to death for killing her husband over an extramarital affair in Cumilla's Homna upazila.
MARCH 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER IN FARIDPUR
A Faridpur court has sentenced three people to death and three others to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a student in Nagarkanda upazila of the district.
- MARCH 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2018 MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on March 9, 2024 sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city’s Sadarghat area.
MARCH 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING CHILD IN N'GANJ
A court in Narayanganj on March 5, 2024 sentenced four people to death for killing a schoolboy at Rupganj in the district in 2018.
MARCH 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN BAGERHAT
A court in Bagerhat on February 28, 2024 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.
- MARCH 7, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MADRASA TEACHER GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING 4 CHILDREN
A Chittagong court on February 18, 2024 sentenced a madrasa teacher to death for raping four children of the institution.
FEBRUARY 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 11 TO DIE FOR KILLING SCHOOL STUDENT IN JOYPURHAT 21YRS AGO
A court in Joypurhat on January 31, 2024 sentenced 11 people to death for killing a ninth grader in Sadar upazila 21 years ago.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES 10, INCLUDING EX-AL LEADER RUHUL AMIN, TO DEATH IN NOAKHALI ELECTION DAY RAPE CASE
A court in Bangladesh on February 5, 2024 sentenced 10 people to death and another six to life sentences in prison for the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on the day of the 11th national election.