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In 2019, the POCSO Act was amended and made more stringent, the amendment raised minimum punishment for penetrative assault from 7 to 10 years and 20 years if the victim was below 16 years in age, with a maximum punishment of life imprisonment with a provision for the death penalty for aggravated penetrative assault.
Bangladesh Tariff Commission (Amendment) Act, 2020; Voter List (Amendment) Act, 2020; Bangladesh Sports Education Institutions Act, 2020; Autonomous, Semi-Autonomous, Statutory Government Authorities, Public Non-Financial Corporations and Self-Governing Institutions. Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation Act, 2020; Bangladesh Lighthouse Act, 2020
This Amendment Act was passed 9 June 1988. The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1988 declared, among others, that Islam shall be state religion (Article 2A) and also decentralised the judiciary by setting up six permanent benches of the High Court Division outside Dhaka (Article 100). Anwar Hussain . Vs.
The Bangladesh Abandoned Property (Control, Management and Disposal) Order, 1972 (President's Order) The Bangladesh (Adaptation of Insurance Act) Order, 1972 (President's Order) The Bangladesh Bank (Demonetisation of Currency Notes) Order, 1972 (President's Order) The Bangladesh Constituent Assembly Members (Cessation of Membership) Order, 1972 ...
By March 2020, the practice was illegal in 35/50 states; [3] by May 2020, FGM was banned in 38/50 U.S. states. [14] On 5 January 2021, the STOP FGM Act of 2020 was enacted, which considers FGM 'a form of child abuse, gender discrimination, and violence', empowering federal authorities to prosecute people who 'carry out or conspire to carry out ...
Bangladesh High Court ordered police to stop using the section since it was removed through an act of parliament. [6] In December 2020, Bangladesh Police charged four under the act for vandalizing a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [7] In 2022, the government was asked to use the act to take action against food hoarding by traders. [8]
In Bangladesh, media bias and disinformation is restricted under the certain constitutional amendments as described by the country's post-independence constitution. The Penal Code , one of the criminal codes deals with the media crime , which according to the law may be applicable to all substantive aspects of criminal law . [ 2 ]
Bangladesh is not a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on abolishing the death penalty. Bangladesh's Law Minister Anisul Huq proposed a law on behalf of the government under which the highest form of punishment would be imposed on those accused of rape. The decision followed ...