The cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair has approved a draft law prescribing death penalty for rapists as a series of rape incidents sparked nationwide protests since last month. “The cabinet unanimously endorsed the amended law . . . prescribing capital punishment for rape instead of (existing) lifetime rigorous impris...
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