BANGLADESH: BILL ON MUTINY DEATH SENTENCE PLACED

22 September 2010 :

a bill that proposes empowering the Bangladeshi government to hand down death sentences for staging mutiny was placed before parliament to be passed into law. "Border Guard Bangladesh Bill-2010" was tabled by home minister Shahara Khatun. If passed, the bill will rename the existing paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) into Border Guard Bangladesh.
 

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