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Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences Jamaat-e-Islami leader to death

February 28, 2013 11:55:18 AM

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Thursday sentenced to death Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI) leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedee . Following the death sentence, violence between police and...

Bangladesh parliament approves amendments to war crimes law

February 17, 2013 10:18:38 AM

The Bangladesh parliament on Sunday approved amendments to the country's war crimes laws to allow prosecutors to appeal sentences given to defendants convicted of war crimes. These amendments are a response to protests that ensued...

HRW: Amendments threaten legitimacy of Bangladesh war crimes tribunal

February 15, 2013 10:11:48 AM

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Bangladesh on Thursday for offering retroactive amendments that change war crime laws to allow plaintiffs to appeal verdicts delivered by the nation's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) . The...

Bangladesh Cabinet approves changes to war crime laws

February 12, 2013 12:11:19 PM

Bangladesh's cabinet on Monday approved changes to war crime laws to allow plaintiffs to appeal verdicts delivered by Bangladesh's crimes tribunal. The amendment permits appeals against "inadequate sentence" in war crimes cases. According to Cabinet Secretary Musharraf...

Bangladesh to amend war crimes penalty laws in response to protests

February 10, 2013 04:10:22 PM

The Bangladesh Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Sunday said that a proposal to amend its war crimes laws to allow the government to appeal for higher sentences will be placed before the cabinet on Monday. This amendment would...

UN rights experts concerned over death sentence imposed in Bangladesh

February 7, 2013 02:26:28 PM

Two UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed concern over the death sentence imposed by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICBT) on Abdul Kalam Azad for crimes during the 1971...

Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences Islamist party leader to life

February 5, 2013 10:45:45 AM

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday handed down its second verdict, sentencing Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) , to life in prison. This sentence...

Bangladesh war crimes tribunal issues arrest warrants for Islamist leaders

July 26, 2010 11:03:37 AM

Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) announced Sunday that it had issued four arrest warrants for the leaders of the Islamist group Jamaat e Islami (JI) for crimes committed during 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . The ICT was established...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs.

Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Oscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, the Archbishop Óscar Romero, was assassinated while performing Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country, when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Oscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University.

In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination or Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a U.S. federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case from CJA.

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