Bangladesh, Aug. 28 -- n October 2019, the Feni Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a student set on fire after accusing her teacher, indeed the principal of the madrasah she attended, of sexual harassment.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, died in April of that year in Feni. Nusrat, then an Alim examinee, had accused madrasah principal Siraj-ud-Daula of sexual harassment. After her mother filed a case, police arrested Siraj on March 27, 2019.

On April 6, Nusrat was lured to the roof of a cyclone shelter, doused with kerosene and set ablaze before an exam. Her brother initially filed a murder-attempt case naming eight people. After her death, it became a murder case, triggering nationwi...