BANGLADESHI COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO 14 ISLAMIC MILITANTS FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL PM SHEIKH HASINA

  • 23/03/2021

Fourteen Islamist militants were on Tuesday given a death sentence by a Bangladeshi court here for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka's Speedy Trial tribunal-1 pronounced the verdict as nine of them were brought to the court from jail to face the trial in person.The rest five convicts are on the run. They were tried in absentia and defended by state-appointed lawyers.

"The verdict will be executed by a firing squad to set an example unless the law barred it," the judge said.
Otherwise, the convicts could be hanged in line with the prevailing practice, following mandatory review of the death sentences by the High Court Division of the Supreme Court under the Bangladesh law, the judge said.Under Bangladesh law, the death sentences would require to be endorsed by the High Court following an automatic death reference hearing. The convicts are allowed to file an appeal as well.For the five convicts who are at large, the judge ordered the verdict to be executed after their arrest or surrender.
All the convicts are operatives of outlawed Harkatul Jihad Bangladesh (HuJI-B).

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