2005 November Bangladesh court bombing was a simultaneous suicide bombing of courts in

Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...

and Gazipur in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

carried out by

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen ("Assembly of Mujahideen--Bangladesh", abbreviated: JMB; bn, জামাত-উল-মুজাহিদীন বাংলাদেশ) is a terrorist organisation operating in Bangladesh. It is listed as a terror group by ...

on 29 November 2005 that killed 8 people and injured over 100.

Attacks

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh had called for the abolition of secular laws and replacing them with

Sharia law Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the Five Pillars of Islam, religious precepts of Islam and is based on the Islamic holy books, sacred scriptures o ...

. They carried out a number of attacks in 2005 targeting the Judiciary. On 29 November 2005, a suicide bomber attacked the Gazipur Bar Association office on the ground floor of the Hall Building-2 in the Gazipur court house complex. The explosion killed 8 people, 3 of whom were lawyers and injured 50 lawyers. The bomber had entered wearing lawyers robes to disguise themselves. The same day and around the same time in Chittagong court two police officers were killed while the bomber survived. In the explosion 16 people were injured including 13 police officers.

Trial

A Gazipur court framed charges against the accused in the Gazipur court blast on 24 April 2011. On 20 June 2013, Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka sentenced 10 accused in the Gazipur court bombing to death. On 28 July 2016

Bangladesh High court The High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, হাইকোর্ট ডিভিশন) popularly known as the 'High Court' is one of the two divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the other division being the Appellate D ...

confirmed the death sentences of 6 convicts, commuted 2 to life sentences, and cleared two of all charges.

Reactions

Bangladesh Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশ সুপ্রীম কোর্ট) is the highest court of law in Bangladesh. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division, and was created by Part VI C ...

bar association called a strike after the bombings, demanding that security be updated.

References

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