The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh is among 16 people sentenced to death on Oct. 24 for the murder of a teenage girl. Nusrat Jahan had refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.
The perpetrators poured kerosene over Jahan, 18, in April 2019. They set her on fire on the roof of her madrasa in the southeastern district of Feni. The police charge-sheet stated that the murder was carried out on the orders of the principal.
