Bangladesh sentenced 20 university students to death for 2019 murder of a young man who criticised the government on social media.

Talking to media, Chief prosecutor Mohammad Abu Abdullah Bhuiyuan said all those given death sentences were between 20 and 22 years old at the time of the murder and attended the elite Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alongside Abrar Fahad, whose battered body was found in his dormitory hours after he wrote a Facebook post slamming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for signing a water-sharing deal with India.