Bangladesh Upholds Death Sentence for 6 Militants

Local Editor

A Bangladesh court Thursday upheld the death sentence for six militants convicted over a suicide bombing 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 militants as the government faces mounting criticism to crackdown on terrorists 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 extremist group Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh [JMB].

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

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team