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'Death Sentence' art exhibition explores link between death and aesthetics

The opening ceremony of the art exhibition “Death Sentence” took place yesterday (February 15) at the Bengal Shilpalay. Curated by Jewel A Rob, under the Bengal Foundation’s Subir Choudhury Curatorial Practice Grant, works by five artists namely Anisuzzaman Sohel, Emran Sohel, Promotesh Das Pulak, Najmun Nahar Keya, and Shimul Datta, are currently being featured in the show.

Iran issues first death sentence over Mahsa Amini protests

Iran on Sunday issued its first death sentence over the protests that have shaken the country's clerical leadership, the judiciary said, with a rights group warning other convicts risked being "hastily" executed.

Naval base mosque attack: 5 JMB men get death sentence

A Chattogram tribunal today sentenced five members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the bomb attack on a naval base in Chattogram.

2 cops to die for killing 2 college girls after rape

A Kishoreganj court sentences two persons including a police constable to death and five others to four-year jail term in connection with killing of two college girls in 2008.

Husband, 5 others handed death for killing housewife

A Dhaka court sentences six persons to death for killing a housewife by setting her on fire over dowry in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka in 2005.

Youth gets death for killing child after rape in Kishoreganj

A youth has been awarded death penalty by Kishoreganj Women and Children Repression Prevention court today for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl.

2 to die for killing girl after rape in Natore

A Natore court sentences two people to death for killing an eleven-year-old schoolgirl after rape in Naldanga upazila in the district in 2015.

4 to walk gallows for killing schoolboy in Gazipur

A court in Gazipur today convicts four people, including two siblings, and sentences them to death for killing a schoolboy at Pubail in the city in August 2004.

Death penalty of JMB man commuted

Supreme Court commutes the death sentence of a member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to jail until death for the bomb attack on Sylhet judge in 2005.

January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016

Sayedee files review plea, seeks acquittal

Convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday filed a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment until death.

January 3, 2016
January 3, 2016

ICT receives Sayedee appeal’s full verdict

The International Crimes Tribunal today received the full verdict copy of war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee that commuted his death sentence to jail until death.

December 2, 2015
December 2, 2015

'Commute Nizami's death sentence if found guilty'

A lawyer of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami appeals to the Supreme Court to commute his client’s death sentence to life term imprisonment if he is found guilty for committing crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

November 30, 2015
November 30, 2015

11 to die for killing Gazipur Jubo League leader

Eleven people are sentenced to death for killing Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur. Additional District and Sessions Judge pronounced the verdict.

November 20, 2015
November 20, 2015

Mojaheed, SQ Chy yet to decide on mercy seeking

The death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury do not give their decision over seeking presidential clemency.

May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015

Egypt's Morsi sentenced to death

Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is sentenced to death over 2011 prison break.

April 29, 2015
April 29, 2015

Mojaheed verdict: SC starts hearing on appeal

The Supreme Court starts hearing the appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed challenging his death sentence for his crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

March 30, 2015
March 30, 2015

7 to die for killing AL man

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006

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