Bangladesh 2025
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News on Bangladesh in 2025
DECEMBER 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court on December 1st, 2025 sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife in the Dakshin Keraniganj area of the capital after she failed to fulfil his dowry demand.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: OUSTED PM HASINA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STUDENTS CRACKDOWN
A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on November 17, 2025, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
NOVEMBER 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COP OVER 'EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR' IN MYMENSINGH
A Mymensingh court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a policeman and his wife to death for killing another policeman over "extramarital affairs" in 2014.
NOVEMBER 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE PERPETRATORS
Bangladesh's interim government on November 6, 2025 approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of “enforced disappearance”
NOVEMBER 2, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 YOUTHS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE IN KHULNA
A Khulna court on October 28, 2025 sentenced seven youths to death for killing Parvez Hawlader and Suprana Saha in the city's Daulatpur Paabla area on January 3, 2009.
- OCTOBER 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BARISHAL GANG RAPE CASE
A Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on 26 October 2025 sentenced four individuals to death for their involvement in a gang rape case.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING FATHER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on September 14, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his father in 2020 over a family feud.
AUGUST 28, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING CHILD
A Cox's Bazar court on August 26, 2025 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.
AUGUST 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, ONE GETS LIFE FOR CTG MURDER CASE
A Chattogram court on August 26, 2025 sentenced two men to death and another to life imprisonment for the 2020 murder of Mahfuzur Rahman at EPZ police station area.
- AUGUST 25, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, INCITING SUICIDE OF TEENAGER IN NETROKONA
A Netrokona court on July 28, 2025 sentenced three men to death for the gang rape of 14-year-old Panna, inciting her to kill herself in a 2017 case that drew public outrage.
JULY 31, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FARIDPUR EASY BIKE DRIVER MURDER CASE
A court in Faridpur sentenced five people to death and another to 10 years’ imprisonment in the murder case of easy bike driver Shaukat Mollya.
JULY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WIFE, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG
A Chattogram court on July 14, 2025 sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband over an extramarital relationship in 2021.
- JULY 7, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 4 TO LIFE TERM IN JHENAIDAH
A Jhenaidah court on July 7, 2025 sentenced four people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing Sub-Inspector (SI) Mirajul Islam in 2011.
- JUNE 19, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF STEPDAUGHTER IN KERANIGANJ
A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj four years ago.
- JUNE 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF PRADEEP, LIAKAT
The High Court (HC) on June 2, 2025 upheld the death sentences of former OC Pradeep Kumar Das and former inspector Liakat Ali in the widely discussed murder case of Major (Retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
MAY 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST LEADER ON DEATH ROW
Bangladesh's top court on May 27, 2025 overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year.
- MAY 27, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH 17 YEARS AFTER COLLEGE STUDENT MURDER
A court in Bangladesh on May 20, 2025 handed down the death penalty to three individuals over the murder of a college student in Bhairab Upazila of Kishoreganj, 17 years after the killing took place.
- MAY 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRADER AFTER ABDUCTION IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on March 20, 2025 sentenced six men to death for abducting and murdering vegetable trader Nazmul Islam in 2017.
- MAY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 5 LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE IN MUNSHIGANJ
A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka on May 8, 2025 awarded death penalty to three accused and life term imprisonment to five others in a triple murder case in Munshiganj.
- MAY 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SENIOR LAWYER IN SYLHET
A Sylhet court on May 6, 2025 sentenced three individuals, including the son of the victim, to death for the brutal 2011 murder of veteran lawyer Shamsul Islam Chowdhury. Another accused in the case received a three-year prison sentence.
- MAY 6, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR MURDER OF HAWKER ZUBAIR IN NARAYANGANJ
A Narayanganj court on May 6, 2025 sentenced four individuals to death and two others to life imprisonment in the murder case of hawker Zubair.
- APRIL 22, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER IN CHUADANGA
A court has handed down the death penalty to a man for raping his daughter in Chuadanga.
APRIL 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LABORER IN HABIGANJ
A Habiganj court on April 9, 2025 sentenced four people to death for the murder of a day laborer at Madhabpur upazila in the district.
- MARCH 25, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, MURDER OF TEENAGER IN 2022
A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced three individuals to death in connection with the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in Keraniganj, Dhaka, three years ago.
- MARCH 18, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 20 MEN WHO MURDERED STUDENT OVER FACEBOOK POST
A High Court in Bangladesh on March 16, 2025 upheld the death sentence of 20 men convicted of killing a fellow student seven years ago inside a university campus.
- MARCH 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES IN TANGAIL BUS RAPE AND MURDER CASE
The High Court on January 27, 2025 commuted the death sentences of three convicts in the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa in a moving bus near Modhupur upazila in Tangail.
- MARCH 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 on February 27, 2025 sentenced Maruf Hasan Badhon to death for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, Asma Akter, five years ago.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: CONTRACTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BKASH AGENT'S MURDER IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on February 24, 2025 handed down the death penalty to a contractor over the murder of a bKash agent in 2020.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN IN HABIGANJ
A Habiganj court on February 24, 2025 convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman in 2014.
FEBRUARY 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 BNP LEADERS RELEASED FROM RAJSHAHI JAIL
Four Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders, who were acquitted from the death penalty by the High Court recently, were released from Rajshahi jail on February 11, 2025.