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Rapists will now face the death penalty in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s Cabinet has allowed an expansion in the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment after a string of recent sexual assaults triggered demonstrations on streets and in social media.

Cabinet spokesman Khandaker Anwarul Islam said President Abdul Hamid is likely to issue an ordinance amending the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act because Parliament is not in session.

Details of the amendment were not immediately available, but Islam said the Cabinet agreed to a proposal that trials in rape cases be completed in a speedy manner

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