Dhaka, (UNA-OIC) – Bangladeshi President Mohammed Abdul Hamid approved a proposed law prescribing the death penalty for rape after it secured cabinet approval, BSS reported on Tuesday.
“The President assented the cabinet decision and issued an ordinance on the amendment of Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Ain (Women and Children Repression Prevention Act),” a presidential spokesman was quoted as saying by BSS.
Previously, the maximum punishment for rape in the country was set to lifetime imprisonment.
