In 2013, a trial court sentenced 152 people to death, but in response to an appeal, the High Court commuted the sentences for eight of them to life in prison and acquitted four others. (Pavel Rahman, File/Associated Press)DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s High Court has upheld a verdict by a trial court sentencing 139 border guards to death for their actions in a 2009 mutiny in which 74 people, including 57 military commanders, were killed. The trial court sentenced 152 people to death in 2013, but in response to an appeal, the High Court commuted the sentences for eight of them to life in prison and acquitted four others. Another man died during the 370 days of proceedings before Monday’s High Court verdict. A three-member panel of High Court judges said in issuing its verdict that the border guards were “most brutal” and “cold-blooded” murderers.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2017 04:57 UTC