BANGLADESH MOOTS DEATH PENALTY FOR PLANE HIJACKERS
February 1st, 2017
THE BANGLADESH government is to formally propose a new Civil Aviation Operation Act 2017 which would include allowing the death penalty to be imposed on plane hijackers. The death sentence, which in Bangladesh is carried out by hanging, was recently added to the draft of the law, which updates the 1960 Civil Aviation Ordinance, dating back to when Bangladesh was East Pakistan. Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam explained to news reporters that the sentence would focus on “any action disrupting smooth operation of air crafts and jeopardising people's ...
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