Bangladesh court passes death sentence on 2009 mutineers

    The Bangladesh High Court has sentenced 139 convicts to death over the Bangladesh Rifles revolt in 2009.

    The mutiny, staged by the members of the paramilitary force in Dhaka, claimed the lives of over 60 people.

    152 of the mutineers were initially handed the death sentence by a lower court in Dhaka. When the case went to the High Court yesterday, 27 November, eight sentences were commuted to life imprisonment and four others were acquitted. One person had died in prison and the rest of the sentences were upheld.

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