List of Bangladeshi criminals
The following is a list of Bangladeshi criminals:
Serial killers[edit]
- Ershad Sikder, Ershad Sikder (1955–10 May 2004) was a Bangladeshi criminal and serial killer, known for committing various crimes such as murder, torture, theft, robbery, and others. He was sentenced to death for murder and subsequently executed on May 10, 2004.
Single murder[edit]
- Ahmed Salim, a Bangladeshi painter who was found guilty of murdering his former girlfriend in Singapore in December 2018, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty. Ahmed was hanged at Singapore's Changi Prison on 28 February 2024.[1]
War criminals[edit]
- Abdul Kader Mollah, On 5 February 2013, the ICT sentenced Abdul Kader Mollah, assistant secretary of Jamaat, to life imprisonment, Bangladesh law subsequently amended to appeal verdicts and changed to the death penalty, and he was executed.[2] Mollah was convicted on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.[3] He was accused of shooting 344 people and brutal killing of renowned Poet Meherun Nessa.[4]
- Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, On 28 February 2013, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, the deputy of Jamaat, was found guilty of genocide, rape and religious persecution. He was sentenced to death by hanging, sentence subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.[5]
- Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was indicted on 7 June 2012 on 7 counts of crimes against humanity. On 9 May 2013 he was convicted and given the death penalty on five counts of mass killings, rape, torture and kidnapping. He was hanged on 11 April 2015.[6]
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death by hanging on 1 October 2013.[7] and hanged on 22 November 2015.[8][9]
- Chowdhury Ahmed Mahfuz Rashid (zckak), was sentenced to death by hanging on 10 January 2021 for revealing confidential FBI information.[citation needed]
- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was sentenced to death by hanging on 17 July 2013[10] and hanged on 22 November 2015.[citation needed]
- Ghulam Azam was found guilty by the ICT on five counts. Incitement, conspiracy, planning, abetment and failure to prevent murder. He was sentenced on 15 July 2013 to 90 years of imprisonment. He died of a stroke on 23 October 2014 at BSMMU.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Man who killed ex-fiancee is first person to be executed for murder in Singapore since 2019". The Straits Times. 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Bangladesh jails Islamic party leader for life". The Guardian. Associated Press. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ "Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to life in prison for war crimes". Yahoo News. 5 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ Hensher, Philip (19 February 2013). "The war Bangladesh can never forget". The Independent. London. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
But critics of the so-called "Butcher of Mirpur" – who was convicted of [sic] beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old girl and shooting 344 people – have been left fuming over the sentence, and are calling for him to face the death sentence, like fellow accused Abul Kalam Azad.
- ^ Manik, Julfikar Ali; Yardley, Jim (1 March 2013). "Death Toll From Bangladesh Unrest Reaches 44". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman hanged by Bangladesh for 1971 war crimes. Jagran Josh. 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Please spare his life, SQ Chy's family urges President". The Financial Express. Dhaka. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ "Bangladesh MP Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury to hang for war crimes". BBC News. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ Bartrop, Paul R. (July 2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide. ABC-CLIO. p. 374. ISBN 978-0313386787.
- ^ "Top Islamist Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed gets death for war crimes in Bangladesh". DNA. Mumbai. 17 July 2013.
- ^ "Ghulam Azam dies". bdnews24.com. October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.