5 students sentenced to life imprisonment
Dhaka (Bangladesh) – The Bangladesh High Court has upheld the lower court’s decision to sentence 20 students of a university to death. It has also upheld the life imprisonment of 5 other students.
The lower court had sentenced the accused students in the case of killing Abrar Fahad, a student, over a Facebook post critical of the Government in 2019. All the accused were students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. They were associated with the now-defunct’ Bangladesh Chhatra League’ organisation. This organisation was the student wing of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party. Reacting to the decision, the father of the deceased student said that they were satisfied with it but that decision should be implemented quickly.
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