Law Minister Anisul Huq has dismissed any possibility of abolishing death penalty in Bangladesh.
However, the minister has said the government will try to avoid capital punishment while enacting future laws.
Anisul said this while talking to reporters after a views-exchange meeting with a delegation of the European Parliament in Dhaka on Thursday.
“When the issue of the death penalty was raised, I told them clearly that the laws which now provide for the death penalty would not be changed,” the minister told reporters.
He said he informed the European Parliament delegates that Bangladesh government will try to avoid death penalties while enacting fresh laws.
“But if we think capital punishment is the best weapon to combat any serious crime, the death penalty may remain in a relevant new law,” Anisul Huq said.
The European Union has long been urging Bangladesh to scrap the death penalty. It also made the call when several war criminals were executed in Bangladesh.
Source: Ittefaq
