152 Bangladeshi soldiers sentenced to death for 2009 mutiny

A Bangladeshi court Tuesday sentenced to death 152 soldiers in one of the worldˈs biggest ever mass criminal trials for their role in a 2009 mutiny and massacre of 74 people, including top army officers.

 

 
 
A total of 820 ex-paramilitary soldiers and 26 civilians were put on trial and Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman gave life imprisonment to 158 rebel soldiers and jail terms of three to 10 years to 251 others, while 271 were acquitted.
 
 
 
Touhid Ahmed, former deputy assistant director of the Bangladesh Rifles, now known as Border Guard Bangladesh, was among those given capital punishment, pti news agency reported. 
 
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