Bangladesh upholds death sentence for six militants

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for six Islamist militants convicted over a 2005 suicide bombing of a lawyer’s office that killed

Published on: Jul 29, 2016, 06:02:12 IST

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DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for six Islamist militants convicted over a 2005 suicide bombing of a lawyer’s office that killed eight people, a top prosecutor said. A bench of two high court judges rejected appeals from the six convicted over the 2005 bombing, claimed by local extremist group Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). JMB has also been blamed for a siege this month by five gunmen on an upscale cafe in Dhaka that killed 20 mostly foreign hostages.

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