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| Bangladeshi people gather outside a court as police escort the accused youth in the killing of Bangladeshi boy Samiul Islam Rajon, before a verdict in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 |
The guardian reports; Courts in Bangladesh sentenced six people to death Sunday for torturing and killing two young boys earlier this year.
Samiul Islam Rajon, 13, died in July after he was brutally beaten. A
28-minute video of Rajon screaming for help as he was being beaten was
posted online and went viral, shocking a nation long inured to violence
against children.
In the second incident, Rakib Hawlader, 12, died in August after his
former employer at a car repair shop used a nozzle to pump air into his
rectum and filled his body with air in retaliation for quitting his job.
Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha found the main suspect in Rajon's death,
Kamrul Islam, and three others guilty of fatally torturing the boy and
sentenced all four to death. Four others involved in the beating death
were sentenced to prison terms ranging from a year to life.
In the video of Rajon's beating, recorded with a cellphone camera, the
boy is heard screaming in pain and pleading with his attackers: "Don't
beat me, please, I will die, I will die." The attackers laughed at the
boy when he asked for water.
Like many poor children in Bangladesh, Rajon was forced to leave school
to work to help his family, in his case selling vegetables.
The main suspect fled to Saudi Arabia but was detained there and deported last month through Interpol to face trial.
Separately on Sunday, Judge Dilruba Sultana said that the owner of the
car repair shop and an employee had tortured Hawlader, who later died in
a hospital. Both were sentenced to death.
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