Sixteen people have been sentenced to death for the murder of a schoolgirl, setting her on fire after she was sexually assaulted.
The headmaster of a Bangladeshi religious school has been sentenced to death along with 15 others over the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against him.
Public prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters “The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law,”