Myanmar junta mandates prison sentences for election critics
Myanmar鈥檚 junta said Wednesday it has enacted a new law dictating prison sentences for critics or protesters of their planned election, which is being boycotted by opposition groups...
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SC verdict on Mobarak鈥檚 appeal set for July 30
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set July 30 to deliver its verdict on the appeal filed by Mobarak Hossain, a former Jamaat-e-Islami member and an expelled Awami League leader, challenging his death sentence for committing war crimes during the country鈥檚 liberation war...
Indonesian influencer given 7-year Myanmar prison sentence
An Indonesian influencer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for meeting with rebels in junta-ruled Myanmar, a foreign ministry official in Jakarta said Wednesday...
No appeal yet against HC verdict commuting death sentences
Nine years have passed since the harrowing extremist attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka鈥檚 Gulshan on July 1, 2016, that left 22 people鈥�17 of them foreign nationals鈥攄ead, but no appeal has yet been filed, challenging the High Court verdict that commuted the death sentences of seven convicts to imprisonment until death...
HC acquits Babar, overturns jail sentence in arms case
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home affairs and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Lutfozzaman Babar in an arms case, overturning the 17-year jail sentence handed to him by a trial court in 2007...
1971 WAR CRIMES: SC to rehear Jamaat leader Azhar鈥檚 appeal against death sentence
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to reopen the appeal of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War...
Indian man sentenced to life for rape, murder of Irish tourist
A court in India鈥檚 western resort state of Goa sentenced a 31-year-old man to life in prison on Monday for raping and murdering an Irish tourist eight years ago...
HC acquits 9 death-row convicts in case filed over attack on Hasina
The High Court has acquitted 47 convicts including nine death-row ones in a case filed over attempt to kill former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Pabna around 30 years back...
Russian court reduces sentences for playwright, director
Director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk were sentenced to six years in prison in July for a play about women marrying jihadists in Syria...
ICC warrant for Netanyahu not enough: Khamenei
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a 鈥榙eath sentence鈥�...
SC stays HC verdict against isolation of death sentence convicts
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a High Court verdict that asked the jail authorities not to put death sentence inmates any more in solitary confinement before the end of all legal processes...
Bangladesh govt challenges HC verdict against isolation of death-row convicts
The government on Tuesday filed an appeal challenging the High Court verdict that asked the jail authorities not to put death sentence inmates in the...