The verdicts announced against me have been made by a rigged tribunal established and presided over by an unelected government with no democratic mandate. They are biased and politically motivated. In their distasteful call for the death penalty, they reveal the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government to re...
The cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair has approved a draft law prescribing death penalty for rapists as a series of rape incidents sparked nationwide protests since last month. “The cabinet unanimously endorsed the amended law . . . prescribing capital punishment for rape instead of (existing) lifetime rigorous impris...