Rashid Abdur

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Abdur Rashid (51), with an address at Blessington Court, Dublin, had his jail term increased to four-and-a-half years by the Court of Appeal. Photograph: Collins Courts
Religious teacher jailed for molesting student has sentence tripled

A religious teacher jailed for molesting a young student at a Dublin mosque has had his 14 month jail term increased to 4½ years by the Court of Appea(...)

Abdur Rashid (50) was convicted of a single count of sexual assault at A Dublin mosque on a date in December 2015. Photograph: David Sleator
Teacher gets suspended sentence for sex assault at Dublin mosque

A teacher in a Dublin mosque who displayed an “unhealthy interest” in a six-year-old girl he went on to molest has received a partially suspended sent(...)

A relative consoles the children of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, the wife of a police superintendent who had been cracking down on militant attacks, after she was stabbed and shot to death by militants while taking her son to school in Chittagong, Bangladesh, last Sunday. Photograph: EPA/STR
Bangladesh says it now knows who’s killing the bloggers

The young man, inching past a crowded checkpoint near a truck stand in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, caught the attention of an alert police officer. H(...)