Bangladesh cabinet Monday approved the amendment to change mainly because of the death penalty for convicted rapists from prison life, according to the state-run news agency Bangladesh Retiarius Sangstha (BSS).
Then we will go into the new provision is signed by the President Bengalienses Abdul Hamid. That is considered a step above.
"Is it (the law), and it has to be a deterrent and so we will do the same charges for all cases of rape, efforts to expedite the process belongs to the trial courts," Law Minister Anisul Huq said, according to the BSS.
Show, even amid the violence of Bangladesh, the national government has faced calls to make sex more I see of men, a group of injury can cross over from viral attack, and he out of the land to the south, is for the woman that she was in labor.
"Bengalienses women have had enough of the government's abject failure to address the repeated rapes and sexual assaults," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said in the last week.
"And to do well in tandem with the needs and Bangladesh government will provide not empty promises of activists that will be in action calls to combat sexual violence and to support hosts will do this. '
New punishment of the late likely it is to be applied; according to Human Rights Watch, Bangladesh has the highest rate of rape, and the sacrifice for the opinion of the face of great difficulties to be low, in the field of sexuality a debt of ten thousand: and in the cases set by the law alleged to follow the enemies of Rome.
