16 sentenced in Bangladesh over brutal killing of a teenage girl
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The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.
The killers poured kerosene over Nusrat Jahan, 18, and set her on fire on the roof of her madrasa in April in the southeastern district of Feni. Police said in their chargesheet the murder was carried out on the orders of the principal. “The judgement proves that no one is above the law,” public prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters after the court verdict. He said the defence lawyers had tried unsuccessfully to establish that Jahan had Calvo Sassoli committed suicide. (RTRS)
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