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Many Were Child Brides Hanged for Murder of Abusive Husbands From Whom There Was No Protection  December 18, 2024 — Amidst a huge surge in executions in the Islamic Republic— 862 so far in 2024, the highest per capita execution rate globally—the Iranian authorities are now increasingly including women in those it sends to the gallows. Since the start of 2024, Iran has executed at least 29 women. More executions of women may have taken place that are unknown.

Bangladesh | Four sentenced to death for killing schoolboy

The Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 on 20 March 2022 sentenced four people to death and two others to life term rigorous imprisonment for killing a schoolboy in 2013.

Judge Begum Sabina Yeasmin of the court handed down the verdict.

The convicts who received death penalties are Siraj, 45, Ahmed Ali, 55, Nahid, 21, and Sentu Mia, 25.

Those who received life term imprisonment are Salma, 42, daughter of Sirajul Islam Siraj and Husna, 47, wife of Ahmed Ali.

The court also acquitted four other accused from the charges as allegations brought against them were not proved before the court.

According to the prosecution, Ahmed Ali, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Singapore and son of Ismail Hossain of Char Radhanagar village in Fatulla area, had longstanding enmity with his nephew Iqbal.

As a consequence of the enmity, Ahmed abducted Iqbal’s brother Emon Hossain, 13, and killed him on 13 June 2013.

Emon was a student of class VI at the time of his abduction.

Ahmed and his accomplices dumped the body after slashing it into nine pieces.

Later, police recovered the body of Emon after the victim’s family lodged a complaint with Narayanganj Sadar police station.

After investigation, police submitted a charge sheet against a total of ten people.

Source: UNB, Staff, March 20, 2022


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