19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster at a school in Bangladesh.
Two weeks later, she was lured to the roof of her school, where a group set her on fire.
Bangladesh court sentences 16 people to death for burning Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 18, alive after she refused to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the principal of her seminarypic.twitter.com/Uy3SieNURM
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Nusrat Jahan Rafi who died after being set on fire was laid to eternal rest at her village home in Feni district of Bangladesh. She was buried at their family graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza at Mohammad Saber Pilot High School ground.
All 16 accused including sacked madrasa principal Siraj Ud Doula and Awami League leader Ruhul Amin awarded death penalty for killing Feni’s madrasa student.
