"The court upheld the death orders against the six JMB extremists as the charges against them were proved beyond any doubt," deputy attorney general Sheikh A.K.M. A bench of two high court judges rejected appeals from the six convicted over the 2005 bombing, claimed by local extremist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Moniruzzaman said the six convicted militants had conspired and assisted in the bombing of the lawyer's office just north of Dhaka, part of JMB's then deadly campaign against the secular judiciary. "Of the ten JMB extremists originally sentenced to death by the trial court in 2013, two were acquitted by the high court and two others were sentenced to life in prison," he added. Bangladesh's judiciary is under pressure to fast track cases involving militants as the government faces mounting criticism to crackdown on Islamists over a series of recent deadly killings.

Source: Thanhnien News July 28, 2016 09:33 UTC