BANGLADESH: 4 TO DIE IN NATORE BCL ACTIVIST KILLING
April 11, 2019: A court in Natore on 11 April 2019 sentenced four people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of a BCL activist in Lalpur upazila. The condemned convicts are—Shamim, Abdul Matin, Sujon and Sukhor Babu while the lifer is Santu. The court also fined the condemned convicts Tk 10,000 each. According to prosecutor Masud Hasan, on February 28 in 2002, a gang of terrorists attacked Habibpur village and vandalised several house centering enmity on the national election. They stabbed and shot BCL activist Moazzem Hossain Khannas to death. (Sources: UNB, 11/04/2019)
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