Barkat Ullah (R), father of Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who was killed in 2019 by members of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, speaks to the media after the High Court's verdict, in Dhaka on March 16, 2025. - AFP
DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh upheld on Sunday (March 16) death sentences of 20 former university students convicted of murdering a fellow student in 2019 who had criticised the country's former government on social media.
Abrar Fahad, 21, a student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was killed hours after publishing a Facebook post that criticised the then government of Sheikh Hasina for signing a water-sharing treaty with India.
