Bangladesh must update colonial-era law to deliver justice for sexual assaults: experts

In January 2021, a schoolgirl died from “profuse bleeding” in Dhaka’s Kalabagan leading her father to bring rape and murder charges. Doctors later found wounds in her genitalia and rectum. But the wording in the post-mortem report that “external objects” had caused the wounds may have doomed her family’s chances of getting justice.

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