Bangladesh Mutiny

The Bangladesh High Court today upheld the death sentence of 139 and the life imprisonment of 146 convicted soldiers involved in a 2009 mutiny and their role in the massacre of 74 people, including 57 Army officers, in the country's biggest-ever criminal case.

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 152 people to death for their actions in a 2009 border guard mutiny.

Bangladesh on Saturday jailed another 723 border guards for their role in the bloody 2009 mutiny, bringing the total number of soldiers imprisoned for the uprising to almost 6,000.

A Bangladesh court has jailed more than 250 people including paramilitary guards and male nurses for joining a 2009 mutiny, prosecutors said on Sunday. Scores of senior army officers were killed during the uprising that began when soldiers at the Bangladeshi Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the capital Dhaka went on a killing spree, dumping the bodies...

Bangladesh on Sunday set up six "special courts" to try the suspected rebellious soldiers for the bloody mutiny by the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) that led to the massacre of 67 army officers.

Nearly 600 border guards of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles, allegedly involved in the bloody mutiny in February, have been arrested.

A senior leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was questioned by sleuths on Monday in connection with last month's bloody mutiny at the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters, the first politician to be quizzed in the case.

The Bangladesh High Court today upheld the death sentence of 139 and the life imprisonment of 146 convicted soldiers involved in a 2009 mutiny and their role in the massacre of 74 people, including 57 Army officers, in the country's biggest-ever criminal case.

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 152 people to death for their actions in a 2009 border guard mutiny.

Bangladesh on Saturday jailed another 723 border guards for their role in the bloody 2009 mutiny, bringing the total number of soldiers imprisoned for the uprising to almost 6,000.

A Bangladesh court has jailed more than 250 people including paramilitary guards and male nurses for joining a 2009 mutiny, prosecutors said on Sunday. Scores of senior army officers were killed during the uprising that began when soldiers at the Bangladeshi Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the capital Dhaka went on a killing spree, dumping the bodies...

Bangladesh on Sunday set up six "special courts" to try the suspected rebellious soldiers for the bloody mutiny by the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) that led to the massacre of 67 army officers.

Nearly 600 border guards of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles, allegedly involved in the bloody mutiny in February, have been arrested.

A senior leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was questioned by sleuths on Monday in connection with last month's bloody mutiny at the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters, the first politician to be quizzed in the case.