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Bangladesh Court Condemns 6 Militants to Death in Killings of Gay Rights Activists
[BenarNews] A Dhaka court sentenced a half-dozen members of an Islamic turban group to death Tuesday for killing two gay-rights activists with machetes in a Dhaka apartment five years ago.Some of the defendants smiled after Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal convicted and condemned six of the eight accused men to death row for the double-murder of Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in April 2016. Two of the suspects were acquitted. "Analysis of the evidence proves that the accused decided to assassinate Xulhaz Mannan and Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tanmoy alias Tonoy, for holding rallies with homosexuals to establish their rights in society," Rahman said in the verdict, a copy of which BenarNews obtained. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-01 |
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