Bangladesh High Court Upholds Death Sentences in Nusrat Jahan Murder Case

Bangladesh high court upholds death sentence over teacher, aide who burned teen student alive

DHAKA – The High Court today confirmed the death sentences of two of the 16 convicts — then principal of Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa SM Siraj-Ud-Dowlah and his close aide Shahadat Hossain Shamim — in the murder case of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The High Court, however, commuted the death sentences of four convicts to [...]

By Asia News Network