Four sentenced to death in Bangladesh for lynching 13-year-old boy

“We’re happy with the judgement”.

Four individuals were ordered to gallows in Sylhet where the convict killed 13-year old Samiul Islam Rajon night-time of torture with sticks on 8 July subsequent to binds him to a pole, the court authorities said.

Rajon was accused of stealing a bicycle although his family claimed his innocence.

“They will be hanged to death”, the judge told a crowded courtroom, referring to defendants Kamrul Islam, Taj Uddin Ahmad, Mayna Miah and Zakir Hossain.

An autopsy found 64 separate injuries had been inflicted on the teenager and that he died of brain haemorrhage, according to AFP. In both cases, the killings had touched off widespread, angry protests with a demand for bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Of the four death sentences, one was delivered in absentia to a man who has gone on the run.

The 28-minute video demonstrated the kid shouting for help, weeping for water and asking for his life while the executioners giggled and scoffed at him as he shouted out “some person please spare me”.

The main suspect fled to Saudi Arabia but was detained there and deported last month through Interpol to face trial. But as he tries to get to his feet, one of the attackers shouts: “His bones are okay”.

The man who filmed the incident, Nur Ahmed, was handed a life sentence, while others received jail sentences for being involved in the attack.

In the second case in the southwestern city of Khulna, a mechanic and his assistant were sentenced to death on Sunday for torturing a 13-year-old former employee to death with an air compressor used for inflating tyres.

The employer Mohammad Sharif flew into a rage after the young boy Rakib Hawlader made a decision to move to another workshop after he was offered a job.