BANGLADESH: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR ACID THROWING IN SIRAJGANJ
August 23, 2009: at a tribunal in Sirajganj, Bangladesh, Special Tribunal Judge Biplob Goswami convicted a man and sentenced him to death. Akram Ali, 30, of Gopinathpur village in Shahjadpur upazila of the district, allegedly hurled acid on his wife Ayesha Siddiqa Shila, 22, on February 18, 2008, following a family feud. She was critically injured. (Sources: United News of Bangladesh, 23/08/09)
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