Babar among 6 acquitted in ten-truck arms haul case

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday acquitted six death-row convicts, including former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, in the sensational 10-truck arms haul cases. The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasreen Akter passed the order. The court also commuted the death sentence of six convicts to

Argentine case into crimes against Rohingya begins

A representative for Myanmar's Rohingya minority community testified in an Argentine court Thursday as a part of an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by the Asian country's military rulers. The court agreed to investigate the allegations based on the principles of universal jurisdiction, which holds that some acts -- including