U.N. Rights Chief Voices 'Serious Alarm' at Bangladesh Death Sentences
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday expressed "serious alarm" at death sentences handed down by a Bangladesh court to 152 soldiers over the massacre of scores of army officers in 2009.
Navi Pillay called the crimes committed in the mutiny "heinous". But she added in a statement from Geneva that "justice will not be achieved" by conducting "trials that failed to meet the most fundamental standards of due process".
Source: Agence France Presse
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