Bangladesh High Court rules against solitary confinement for death row prisoners, ordering their transfer to general wards within two years.

Bangladesh's High Court has ruled that death row prisoners cannot be held in solitary confinement until their appeals are exhausted. The decision impacts thousands of convicts who have been sentenced to death and kept in solitary "condemned cells" for years. The court ordered Bangladesh's overcrowded prisons to shift all death row inmates to general wards within two years, citing inhumane conditions as a violation of the Constitution.

May 13, 2024
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