Six people were sentenced to death on Sunday by two Bangladeshi courts for torturing to death two young boys, including a 13-year-old whose death had triggered protests in the country after video footage of the brutal attack went viral.
Four people were ordered to gallows in Sylhet where the culprits murdered 13-year old Samiul Islam Rajon after hours of torture with sticks on July 8 after tying him to a pole, the court officials said.
“They shall be hanged by neck until they are dead,” Sessions Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha pronounced as the convicts stood on the dock while one of them was exposed to justice after extraditing him from Saudi Arabia. A vegetable vendor and student of a local school was stabbed to death claiming he was involved in stealing a rickshaw van, an allegation that police said was not found.
The subsequent autopsy report said Rajon died of brain hemorrhage though the doctors found 64 injury marks in his body while the evidence suggested the boy was tortured for nearly four hours until he breathed his last. The killers also made a video of the torture and posted it on Facebook which eventually went viral and earned massive public outcry.