Of the eight defendants in the case, six were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, public prosecutor Golam Sarwar Khan said on Tuesday. Of the six men sentenced to death, two are also on the run and were tried in absentia. Five of those convicted had already been sentenced to death in February for the 2015 murders of a blogger and a publisher who were hacked to death in separate incidents. It was only published for two years but became a platform for promoting LGBTQ+ rights in Bangladesh. The sentencing is the first time a Bangladeshi court has acted on violence against gay rights activists.

Source: Daily Mail September 01, 2021 10:18 UTC