How a 12-year-old was forced to give confession on killing his brother

The Daily Star June 18, 2021

A 12-year-old boy was not only shown arrested for murder, after his younger brother was found dead, he was also forced to give a confessional statement in 2015.

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The lifeless body of 8-year-old Sohag was found in a jute field in Bogura on August 15 that year.

The police, allegedly complying with influential perpetrators, arrested the elder brother, also a minor, and forced him to confess to murdering his brother.

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