A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Sunday convicted 57 members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on charges relating to their involvement in last year's border guard mutiny . BDR Special Court-3 in the...
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Continued support for capital punishment leaves US on wrong side of history
Elizabeth Zitrin : "The United States of America, proud of its commitment to fairness and justice, is being left behind on one of the most important international human rights issues of our age....
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Wednesday convicted 29 members of the paramilitary group Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on charges relating to their involvement in last year's border guard mutiny . The military-run court...
Japan ICC judge urges more Asian participation to balance court
A top Japanese judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC) Sunday called on more Asian governments to participate in the tribunal so its regional representation would be more balanced. Judge Kuniko Ozaki , who was elected...
Bangladesh officials on Thursday announced the establishment of a special war crimes tribunal that will hear cases against individuals accused of war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . According to Law Minister Shafique Ahmed ,...
The Bangladesh Cabinet on Monday ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The ratification will not aid in the nation's pending war crimes trials for the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation...
Bangladesh to appoint prosecutors for war crimes tribunal by March
The Bangladesh government announced on Tuesday that prosecutors and investigators for the country's war crimes tribunal should be appointed by the first week of March. The tribunal will be used to conduct fair and transparent trials for...
Bangladesh officials execute coup officers for 1975 presidential assassination
Bangladesh officials on Wednesday executed two of five former military officers sentenced to death for the 1975 assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the country's founding president, just hours after the country's Supreme Court rejected...
State Department's religious freedom report shows global need for inter-faith tolerance
John Esposito : "Despite our increasingly globalized world and the need to strengthen religious pluralism as well as to transform an outmoded notion of tolerance based simply on co-existence to one...
Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds death sentence for coup officers
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Thursday denied the appeals of five former military officers sentenced to death for the 1975 military coup assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the country's first leader. Bangladeshi Prime...