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A mother with a photo of her son who became a victim of forced disappearance in 2013 (image by VOA). Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh refer to extrajudicial executions carried out by law enforcement agencies without due legal process and to abduction cases in which the government directly or indirectly kidnaps people and holds them incommunicado.
Sentenced to five years for his role in the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, died four months after his imprisonment, the official cause of death is disputed John McAfee: 2021-06-23 United Kingdom “Everything points to death by suicide,” [70] according to the Guardian, except a previous statement: 'If I suicide myself, I didn't.' [71]
Abdul Kader Mollah, On 5 February 2013, the ICT sentenced Abdul Kader Mollah, assistant secretary of Jamaat, to life imprisonment, Bangladesh law subsequently amended to appeal verdicts and changed to the death penalty, and he was executed. [3] Mollah was convicted on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. [4]
A new Birth and Death Registration Act was passed in 2004. The law allowed local government bodies and Bangladesh embassies abroad to register births and deaths. The Office of the Registrar General of Birth and Death was established in September 2013 to establish a permanent central database of birth and death records. [4]
Bangladesh mourns some 200 deaths as student protests wind down and thousands are arrested By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh observed a day of mourning Tuesday in memory of more than 200 people killed in recent weeks during violence that evolved from student protests over the South Asian country's quota ...
The first person convicted was Abul Kalam Azad, tried in absentia as he had left the country; he was sentenced to death in January 2013. The ICT initially received some offers of international assistance. In 2009, the UN offered its expertise, expressing an interest in helping Bangladesh avoid the problems other countries faced in similar trials.
Authorities in Bangladesh arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday and sent him to prison after hours of detention. Media reports said at least three ...