Women hold placards with a photograph of schoolgirl Nusrat Jahan Rafi at a protest in Dhaka on April 12, 2019, following her murder by being set on fire after she had reported a sexual assault. — AFP pic
“The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law,” prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters after the verdict in a crowded courtroom. Protesters in the capital Dhaka staged days of demonstrations seeking"exemplary punishment" for the killers.Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the sexual harassment, and a leaked video shows the local police station chief registering her complaint but dismissing it as “not a big deal.”
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