A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday in a US federal court to conspiracy to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead in 2021 in Port-au-Prince. Mario Antonio Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty in a Miami federal court after entering into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. Until agreeing to a plea
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PM assassination attempt: Fugitive death row convict held in city
Police have arrested a fugitive death row convict in a case filed over the attempt to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000. Azizul Haque Rana alias Shahnewaz alias Ruman was arrested from Khilkhet Bazar in the capital on Tuesday. Police also seized two jihadi books, two mobile phone sets, a pen
Kotalipara plot: 14 sentenced to death
A tribunal in Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced 14 people to death in a sedition case filed over the murder attempt on then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000. Judge of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Abu Zafar Mohammad Kamruzzaman handed down the verdict. The convicts are Mohammad Azizul Haque