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Dhaka, Feb 16 (EFE/EPA).- A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday awarded death sentence to five members of a banned Islamist outfit, linked to the al Qaeda terror group, and life imprisonment to one for killing a liberal writer and blogger in 2015.Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal also imposed a fine of 50,000 taka (around $600) to each of those found guilty of killing the Bangladeshi-American Avijit Roy, prosecutor Golam Sharuar Khan told EFE.Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who escaped the death sentence, will have to serve another two years in jail unless if he did not pay the fine. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM).SHOT LIST: POLICE OFFICERS STAND GUARD DURING A TRIAL OF THE ACCUSED MURDERERS OF BLOGGER-WRITER AVIJIT ROY IN DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Several policemen are among dozens of Afghan men facing trial over the mob killing of a 27-year-old woman, caught on video, after she was accused of burning a koran. Vanessa Johnston reports.
A woman suffering from mental illness is beaten to death, her body burned and then dumped in a river, for allegedly burning pages of Islam's holy Koran, Kabul media reported. Gavino Garay reports.
People in Tokyo pay tribute to the former prime minister Shinzo Abe as Japan marks a year since the shocking assassination of the country's longest-serving leader and a towering political figure. IMAGES
People protest in Warsaw against Poland's abortion law, after the death of a pregnant woman. The country allows abortion only in cases of rape and incest, or if the life or health of the mother is in danger. IMAGES
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