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Bangladesh
Bangladesh Opposition Leader Gets Life over 2004 Attack
2018-10-11
[An Nahar] A Bangladesh court Wednesday sentenced a top opposition leader to life in prison and sentenced 19 more people to death over a 2004 grenade attack on the current prime minister.

"We thank God for the verdict," prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain told news hounds after announcing that Tarique Rahman
...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office...
, the self-exiled acting head of the country's main opposition party, was jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for life while 19 others, including two former ministers, received the death penalty
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