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Bangladesh student's rape triggers protests demanding death penalty | South China Morning Post

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More than 1,500 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, marched and disrupted traffic on main roads after a second-year university student was raped on January 5. Protesters demanded the rapist’s arrest within 24 hours and urged the death penalty for convicted rapists.

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