{"id":41726,"date":"2019-11-27T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41726"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T07:24:49","slug":"holey-artisan-cafe-attack-dhaka-court-sentences-seven-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41726","title":{"rendered":"Holey Artisan cafe attack: Dhaka court sentences seven to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"102\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Dhaka, Bangladesh &#8211;<\/strong> An anti-terrorism court in Dhaka has sentenced seven people to death<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in connection with a 2016 deadly siege of a popular cafe in the Bangladeshi capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">One person was acquited by the court on Wednesday, which delivered its verdict amid tight security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Twenty-two people were killed after gunmen stormed the upmarket Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka&#8217;s Gulshan area on July 1, 2016, in an attack that drew global condemnation.\u00a0The victims included 17 foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Golam Sharuar Khan Zakir, the Public Prosecutor, welcomed the verdict. &#8220;We sought death penalty for them as they were intricately involved with the terrorist attack even though they didn&#8217;t physically took part in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Md Majibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Dhaka ordered deaths by hanging.<\/p>\n<p>The seven convicts who face gallows are: Hadisur Rahman, Rakibul Hasan Regan, Aslam Hossain Rash, Md Abdus Sabur Khan, Shariful Islam Khaled, Mamunur Rashid Ripon and Jahangir Hossain.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police submitted a charge sheet against eight suspects from the banned armed group Jama&#8217;atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of security forces, including paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion, were deployed on Wednesday in and around the court premises in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst Major General (Retd) Abdur Rashid termed the verdict &#8220;a milestone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this verdict, Bangladesh, as a country legally establishes its zero tolerance stance against militancy and terrorism,&#8221; he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Bangladesh &#8211; An anti-terrorism court in Dhaka has sentenced seven people to death\u00a0in connection with a 2016 deadly siege of a popular cafe in the Bangladeshi capital. One person was acquited by the court on Wednesday, which delivered its verdict amid tight security. Twenty-two people were killed after gunmen stormed the upmarket Holey Artisan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}