Bangladesh Court Upholds Death Sentence over Teen Burned Alive
The court also reduced four death sentences to life terms and acquitted 10 defendants in the case that sparked nationwide protests.
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Bangladesh court upholds death sentence over teen burned alive
A Bangladesh appeals court upheld Monday the death sentence for an ex-headteacher who burned alive a teen student who accused him of sexual harassment, in a case that shocked the country.The court also maintained the death penalty for a co-conspirator in the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, while 10 other defendants were acquitted.The teen, who...
Bangladeshi justice acquitted Monday on appeal for lack of evidence 10 of the 16 people sentenced to death in 2019 for the murder of a 19-year-old woman who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against the head of her Koranic school.
According to the authorities, the victim had been drawn to the roof of his school in Sonagazi and his assailants had asked him to withdraw the complaint of sexual harassment against the principal of the institution.
AGI - An appeal court in Bangladesh confirmed the death sentence for the former headmistress of a rural Islamic school, held responsible for the murder of student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, burned alive after having denounced him for sexual harassment. The attack on the student in Bangladesh The 19-year-old girl had been sprinkled with kerosene and burned, reporting burns on 80% of the body. An agony of unspeakable pain, which had led her to die in the …
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