U.N. Rights Chief Voices 'Serious Alarm' at Bangladesh Death Sentences

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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday expressed "serious alarm" at death sentences handed down by a Bangladesh court to 152 soldiers over the massacre of scores of army officers in 2009.

Navi Pillay called the crimes committed in the mutiny "heinous". But she added in a statement from Geneva that "justice will not be achieved" by conducting "trials that failed to meet the most fundamental standards of due process".

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