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    N'ganj man, son get death penalty for killing relative

    A Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced a man and his son to death for killing 1 of their minor relatives after abduction in 2015.

    Judge Mohammad Ali Hossain of Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court-1 delivered the verdict in the presence of the convicts -- Billal Hossain, 61, and his son Mahfuzul Islam, 20.

    Additional Public Prosecutor Abdur Rahim said the court also sentenced them to three years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) and fined Tk 50,000, in default of which, they will have to suffer 6 more months for hiding the body.

    Besides, the court sentenced them to seven years' RI and fined Tk 50,000, in default of which, they will have to suffer 6 more months for the abduction.

    According to the prosecution, Maqsudul Islam Tuhin, 7, was kidnapped from his residence on May 9, 2015. The next day, his cousin Mahfuzul demanded Tk 20 lakh as ransom from Tuhin's father Nasir Uddin.

    On May 12, police arrested Mahfuzul in Narsingdi through mobile tracking. Following his confessional statement, police recovered Tuhin's body from a drum inside the house of Billal, who was arrested later.

    Afterwards, Billal admitted that he strangled Tuhin out of revenge as his father Nasir beat him over a trifling matter.

    (Source: The Daily Star)
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    Three to die for 1971 war crimes in Noakhali

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    The International Crimes Tribunal or ICT has sentenced three people to death and jailed a fourth for 20 years for crimes against humanity committed in Noakhali during the 1971 Liberation War.

    The death-row convicts are Amir Ali, Md Joynal Abedin and Abul Kalam. Among them, Kalam is on the run.

    Md Abdul Quddus has received the jail term.

    The convicts carried out murders, genocide, arsons and loots in Sudharam on the west bank of the Noakhali canal during the war, according to the verdict.

    Investigation Officer Helal Uddin and 14 others testified against them. The defendants’ lawyer could not produce any witness.

    On Feb 6, the tribunal heard arguments of both sides in the case.

    Justice Shahinur Islam led the tribunal bench which announced the verdict on Tuesday.

    The bench said all the charges brought by the prosecution were found to be true.

    The tribunal asked the home minister and the inspector general of police to take necessary actions to arrest the fugitive.

    The convicts are allowed to challenge the verdict in the Appellate Division within a month. The fugitive needs to surrender first in order to use the option.

    The case initially named five people. Among them, Md Yunus Ali died. The charges were framed in 2016.

    So far, the ICT has announced verdicts in 31 cases against 71 people; 68 people have been convicted while 41 received capital punishment. Three suspects died during trials.

    https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018...es-in-noakhali

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    Mymensingh’s Riaz Uddin Fakir to die for war crimes

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    A war crimes tribunal has sentenced Riaz Uddin Fakir to death for his role in genocide in Mymensingh during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.

    He has been convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity in Fulbaria.

    A three-member bench of the International Crimes Tribunal headed by Justice Md Shahinur Islam passed the judgement on Thursday after wrapping up a hearing from prosecutors and the defendant on Mar 21.

    It is the 32nd verdict in war crimes cases since the tribunal was formed in 2010.

    According to the verdict, four allegations brought against Fakir have been proved. He was sentenced to death on two charges and jailed for life for the other two.

    Fakir has been behind bars since the trial began on Dec 11, 2016.

    According to the investigation agency, Fakir was a member of Al-Badr, a paramilitary force responsible for mass killings during Bangladesh’s Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971. He was involved with Jamaat-e-Islami that openly opposed the liberation struggle.

    Charges submitted to the tribunal in 2016 linked Fakir to five war crimes. The 69-year-old man was in the dock during the verdict.

    Initially three persons were accused in the case but later Amjad Ali’s name had been dropped from the list as he fell sick after being arrested and died in jail.

    The tribunal removed the name of another suspect Wajuddin after he had died while on the run.

    Of the 74 people accused in 32 cases in war crimes so far, five died during trials.

    Of them, 69 people were punished, with 42 sentenced to death.

    https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018...for-war-crimes

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    Bangladesh upholds death sentence of Saudi diplomat's killer

    By Haroon Janjua
    The National

    The Bangladesh Supreme Court in Dhaka has upheld the execution of the man charged with the 2012 killing of Saudi diplomat Khalaf Al Ali.

    Khalaf, 45, a Second Secretary at the Saudi embassy in the capital Dhaka, was shot down near his residence in the city's diplomatic enclave on March 6. It was the first case of a murder of a foreign diplomat in Bangladesh.

    Saif ul Islam Mamun, the main perpetrator in the murder, filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against his death sentence after the court upheld the ruling in November last year, together with the life sentences of three others convicted in the murder.

    In 2013, the High Court sentenced Mamun to death. Rafiqul Islam, Mohammad Al Amin and Akbar Ali Lalu were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the killing.

    On Monday, a four-member bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, ruled on the verdict for Mamun.

    He is now only left with the option of presidential clemency if he is to avoid execution. If the president rejects a plea, the government will announce the date of his execution.

    The country’s Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said: “Now, there is no bar towards executing the verdict against convict Saiful Islam Mamun.”

    Khalaf Al Ali had served for two years as head of citizens' affairs and was living alone in his apartment and used to go on walks every night. Earlier in his career, he worked in Azerbaijan for seven years. He was set to take up a posting in Jordan.

    More than two million Bangladeshi workers are working in Saudi Arabia, which is a key ally of the South Asian country and a major donor.

    In October 2011, Saudi Arabia executed eight Bangladeshi workers in public for involvement in armed robbery. Dhaka and the United Nations criticised the beheading.

    https://www.thenational.ae/world/asi...iller-1.778520

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    Bangladesh court finds death row convict innocent the day he dies

    The Daily Star/Asia News Network

    KHULNA, Bangladesh — On Sunday afternoon, Khulna jail received the copy of a High Court order that one Obaid Ali be released from death row because the court had found him innocent.

    There was one problem though: Ali had passed away that very same morning after a long battle against colon cancer.

    Ali’s story, however, is not one about tragic timing; rather it is about bureaucratic red-tape.

    A resident of Satkhira’s Kukhrali village, he had been a death row convict for 13 years and had been locked up in the prison cell of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH), unable to spend his last moments with his family.

    The HC had declared Ali not guilty six months ago, but it took half a year for the order to get typed up and make the journey from Dhaka to Khulna.

    “Obaid’s condition had been critical for the last few months,” said Dr Subrata Kumar Mondal, registrar of KMCH, who had treated Ali in the final four years of his life. “All he wanted was to get some time with his family before he died,” he added.

    Ali was charged with the murder of two police constables in 2003.

    On February 3 of that year, constables Fazlul Haque, Abdul Motaleb and Abdul Ahad were cycling back home when they were attacked by people with knives. Fazlul and Abdul were killed in the incident, while Ahad escaped with injuries.

    The next day, habildar Ruhul Amin filed a case with Satkhira Sadar Police Station.

    Three years later, a Khulna speedy tribunal sentenced Ali to death. Within seven days of this sentencing, Ali filed an appeal with the HC — but that took six years to resolve.

    The result in the end was positive: Ali was pronounced innocent. However, the Supreme Court upheld the HC’s decision six years later.

    Ali’s son Sheikh Ashiqur Rahman Shaon had been running around trying to obtain the papers from the court. “I met with the Chief Justice last September 5 hoping to get a copy of the order. Before that, I had met with the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission,” he said.

    “Because the order copy did not reach the prison authorities in time, my father had to spend six extra months in jail. Unfortunately, those were his last days.”

    Ali’s wife Ambia Khatun claimed that her husband’s health could have improved if he had been given better medical care outside of prison.

    “I want justice for my husband’s death. I want compensation. My two daughters, son and I have spent the last 13 years without him as a guardian. When we finally had a chance to be together, that too was snatched away,” she said.

    Jakir Hossain, one of the other accused in the case was released yesterday, informed Osman Gani, the public prosecutor of Satkhira Judge Court.

    https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/104074...he-day-he-dies

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    Bangladesh sentences 19 to death for political rally attack in 2004

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    DHAKA -- A Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced 19 people to death and the opposition's heir-apparent to life imprisonment Wednesday for a deadly 2004 attack at a political rally of then-opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

    Tribunal Judge Shahed Nuruddin delivered the hourlong verdict--interrupted twice by power cuts--at the court in Dhaka on nearly 50 cases stemming from the grenade attack 14 years ago that killed two dozen people and wounded nearly 300 more. Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.

    Armed guards lined the streets outside the courtroom in the old part of the city.

    Lutfuzzaman Babar, one of two former Cabinet ministers among those condemned to death, told reporters after the verdict that he was innocent. "God knows everything. I was not behind it," he said.

    Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's elder son, Tarique Rahman, received a life sentence for each of two conspiracy charges stemming from the attack. He lives in London and was tried in absentia. Eleven other defendants were given six months to two years in prison.

    Rahman's conviction could help Hasina retain power in elections due in December.

    Zia has been in prison in a corruption case since February.

    Nuruddin said the defendants had 30 days to appeal the verdict to Bangladesh's High Court.

    http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201810100048.html

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    October 23, 2018

    Death penalty for carrying yaba, heroin

    The Daily Star

    The Narcotics Control Bill 2018 was placed in parliament last night, with provision for death sentence or life-term imprisonment for carrying, producing, trading and using more than five grammes of yaba, and more than 25 grammes of heroin and cocaine.

    Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan placed the bill, which was sent to the respective parliamentary standing committee for further examination. The committee was asked to submit its report within two days.

    In the existing law, Narcotics Control Act 1990, there is no provision for death sentence or life imprisonment for offences related to heroin and cocaine. The maximum punishment is 15 years.

    According to the proposed law, punishment for transporting, trading, storing, producing, processing, applying and using more than five grams of yaba or methamphetamine will be death penalty or life-term imprisonment.

    For less than five grammes of the substance, the punishment will be minimum one year to maximum five years of jail, alongside the fine.

    According to Department of Narcotics Control, about 50 methamphetamine pills weigh five grammes.

    Methamphetamine substances were also included into A-category narcotics in the proposed law, as it is not in the existing act.

    Shisha, khat and dope tests were incorporated in the draft bill, as the existing law do not address these.

    Punishment for transporting, trading, storing, producing, processing, applying and using more than 25 grammes of narcotics originated from heroin, cocaine and coca will be death penalty or life-term imprisonment, while for less than 25 grammes of the A-category narcotics, the penalty will be two years to 10 years of jail.

    The maximum punishment for any individual or organisation financing or patronising drug dealing will be death penalty.

    On October 8, the cabinet approved draft of the act to update the existing one in line with relevant UN conventions, of which Bangladesh is a signatory.

    https://www.thedailystar.net/country...ladesh-1650514

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    Bangladesh tries 8 over deadly cafe attack

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    DHAKA: Eight alleged Islamist extremists went on trial in Bangladesh on Monday (Dec 3) over a savage 2016 attack claimed by Islamic State that killed 22 people including 18 foreigners at a Dhaka cafe popular with Westerners.

    Prosecutors say that the eight members of a homegrown extremist outfit were "associates" of the five attackers killed when police stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe.

    The eight, who face the death penalty if convicted, "helped mastermind the attack and supplied arms and ammunition," prosecutor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury told AFP.

    Six defendants were present with two having absconded. More than 200 witnesses have been called in a special anti-terrorism court in the old part of the capital Dhaka under tight security.

    The brazen assault in July 2016 saw young men armed with assault rifles and machetes lay siege to the cafe in Dhaka's well-heeled Gulshan neighbourhood.

    In addition to 22 civilians, two policemen were killed. Military commandos took over the cafe after a 10-hour standoff and freed more than two dozen hostages.

    The attack claimed by the Islamic State group fuelled tensions over Islamist extremism in the Muslim-majority nation of 165 million people in South Asia.

    Police have said the aim of the attack was to destabilise the country and turn it into a militant state.

    Eight others - including the attack's mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Canadian of Bangladesh descent - were killed during raids in Dhaka and its suburbs months after the incident.

    They included commanders of a new faction of the homegrown extremist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) that police blamed for the attack.

    The government has repeatedly denied that international jihadist networks have a presence in Bangladesh.

    The IS-linked news agency Amaq however published extensive details of the attack, including gory images from inside the cafe.

    The hostage crisis marked an escalation from a spate of murders claimed by IS and Al-Qaeda of atheist writers, rights activists, gays, foreigners and religious minorities since 2013.

    It was seen as a major blow to the country's image as a moderate Muslim nation.

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...trial-10993016

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    Bangladesh to Begin Hanging People for Non-Violent Drug Offences

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    People in Bangladesh now face execution for a range of non-violent drug offences.

    The Narcotics Control Act 2018, which came into effect on 27 December, mandates either the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone convicted of committing a range of drug offences. Such crimes include trading or producing over 25 grams of heroin or cocaine, and trading or producing over 200 grams of methamphetamine (colloquially known as "yaba"), Dhaka Tribune reports.

    Trading or producing less than 200 grams of methamphetamine, or less than 25 grams of cocaine or heroin, will now be punished by between two and 10 years imprisonment.

    Under the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898, "when any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead".

    Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan claimed that such strict punishments were necessary to dissuade people from drug use; "This youth society loses their ability to work, service attitude, and creativity, due to drug addiction and they become a burden for the nation in the process". He added that the implementation of the new law meant that "We'll surely succeed in controlling drugs".

    The movement towards implementing capital punishment for drug offences in Bangladesh began in 2017, following an apparent rise in methamphetamine use, and increasingly heated political discussions on the subject. As TalkingDrugs reported, the country's Department of Narcotic Control warned that the country "[needed] to do something drastic without any delay to come out from this evil situation. Otherwise, the whole nation may immediately start suffering so much [that it] will go beyond recovery and repair".

    In the interim period, between officials voicing their desire for the death penalty and the law coming into effect, authorities seemingly began their own illegal and deadly drug war – bearing similarities to the ongoing slaughter under President Duterte in the Philippines. Hundreds of people have been killed by law enforcement in 2018 for alleged involvement with the drug trade. Authorities have claimed that all those killed were shot to death in exchanges of gunfire, but human rights groups and some witnesses claim people are being executed – some for political reasons or personal vendettas entirely unrelated to drugs.

    Khan has warned that “this war will continue until we bring [drugs] under complete control”. He denounced those killed as “not good people”, and said there was “no question” that they all sold illegal drugs.

    The lack of evidence and oversight in these killings suggests that the state may continue to execute people under the new drug law without sufficient proof of guilt.

    Executing people for drug offences is a violation of international law. Article 6.2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights reads: "In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes". In 2017, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recognised that “'the most serious crimes' ... has been interpreted to mean only crimes involving intentional killing”.

    Including Bangladesh, there are 33 countries - including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the US - which retain the death penalty for drug offences.

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    Bangladesh hasn't even hanged anyone this year I doubt a single person will even get hanged for drug offences.

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