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Bangladesh

Bangladesh sentences 20 people to death for the brutal 2019 murder of a university student who criticized the government on social media

2021-12-09

Intra-party politics is a deadly sport in Bangladesh.

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#Bangladesh sentences 20 people to death for the brutal 2019 murder of a university student who criticized the government on social media, says a prosecutor.https://t.co/JLPKqZ5nTM
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 8, 2021

Bangladesh sentenced 20 people to death on Wednesday for the brutal 2019 murder of a university student who criticized the government on social media, a prosecutor told AFP.

"Twenty people have been sentenced to death and five people were sentenced to life in prison over the killing of Abrar Fahad," prosecutor Abdullah Abu said.

Benar News adds:

A Dhaka court sentenced 20 student members of the ruling party’s youth wing to death and five others to life in prison Wednesday for fatally beating a fellow student at a prestigious engineering school because he had criticized the government online.

The 25 used cricket bats and other objects to beat to death Abrar Fahad, a student at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), in a residential hall in October 2019 after he posted comments via Facebook that were critical of Prime Minister ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums...
’s government, according to authorities.

University campuses in Bangladesh are an arena for boisterous debate between youth wings of rival political parties, but this can turn ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful.

The judge said the suspects had spread rumors that Abrar had been a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir
...

the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
party, which worked against Bangladesh during the country’s war of independence from Pakistain in 1971.

A second-year student in electrical engineering at BUET, Abrar was beaten on Oct. 7, 2019, by the members of the Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
, the student wing of the Awami League party.

His killing ignited protests on campuses across the country.

Three of the defendants absconded following the incident while the others have been tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
since shortly after the attack.

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