Bangladesh: Fear of imminent execution

Bangladesh: Fear of imminent execution

Index Number: ASA 13/009/2006
Date Published: 27 September 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Bangladesh

Six men (Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, Ataur Rahman Sunny, Abdul Awal, Khaled Saifullah and Iftekhar Mamun), who are members of the Islamist group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), are facing imminent execution, convicted of involvement in a November 2005 suicide bomb attack which killed two judges in the southern city of Jhalakathi.