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 ,...
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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...
Bangladesh high court recommends against military trials for BDR mutiny suspects
Bangladesh's Supreme Court recommended against military trials for Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) members who took part in February's border guard mutiny , Law Minister Shafiq Ahmed announced Monday. President Zillur Rahman asked for...
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son, Tarique Rahman , will face court proceedings on corruption charges starting in October, officials from the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court said...
Bangladesh should improve their war crimes laws to bring justice to victims of the 1971 War of Independence from Pakistan, Human Rights Watch urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday. The rights...
War crimes suspects entering or residing in the UK are often immune from prosecution for their acts, according to a report released Monday by Aegis Trust . The report refers to a "significant number" of alleged...