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Bangladesh
Bangladesh upholds death sentence for six militants
2016-07-29
[The Hindu] A Bangladesh court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for six Islamist snuffies convicted over a suicide kaboom in 2005 of a lawyer’s office that killed eight people, a top prosecutor said.

Bangladesh’s judiciary is under pressure to fast track cases involving snuffies as the government faces mounting criticism to crackdown on Islamists over a series of recent deadly killings. A Bench of two High Court judges rejected appeals from the six convicted over the 2005 bombing, claimed by local turban group Jamat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Charges proved beyond doubt
"The court upheld the death orders against the six JMB turbans as the charges against them were proved beyond any doubt," Deputy Attorney-General Sheikh A.K.M. Moniruzzaman told AFP.

JMB has also been blamed for a siege this month by five gunnies on an upscale cafe in Dhaka that killed 20 mostly foreign hostages and two coppers.

Police have rejected the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group’s claim for the July 1 attack. The group posted gruesome images of the carnage before the military stormed the cafe.

Conspired, assisted in the bombing
Mr. Moniruzzaman said the six convicted snuffies had conspired and assisted in the bombing of the lawyer’s office just north of Dhaka, part of JMB’s then deadly campaign against the secular judiciary.

"Of the ten JMB turbans originally sentenced to death by the trial court in 2013, two were acquitted by the High Court and two others were sentenced to life in prison," he added.

The attack was one of a series of blasts the JMB carried out in 2005, then raising fears that the Moslem-majority nation would descend into Afghanistan-style Islamic militancy.

Four lawyers and four litigants died in the attack. The jacket wallah was also killed.

Now, it has regrouped and is stronger
Authorities launched a crack down on the JMB at the time, but it has regrouped in recent years under new leaders. According to experts, it has been actively recruiting young and highly educated young men to its ranks.

Police have blamed the banned group for scores of gruesome murders of religious minorities, as well as of foreigners, since 2013.
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