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Six people, including Rifat’s wife, Minni, who was sentenced to death on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Rifat Sharif in Barguna in Bangladesh in June last year, have remained in the prison “cell of the condemned” according to the usual rules.
The special prison cell where the prisoners are kept is called the cell of the convicted.
Inmates sentenced to the cell have different codes of conduct than other inmates in prisons, and the condom cell differs significantly from other inmates.
What is the difference between ‘Condemned Cell’ and other prison cells?
Former Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said that even if prisoners are kept in a different type of cell than other offenders, there is no such law under the Bangladesh Prison Code.
The law does not specify that a prisoner must remain on guard full time after being sentenced to death, but must remain in a separate room, even if he cannot receive visitors.
However, Shamsul Haider Siddiqui commented that prison authorities view defendants in the condom cell in a slightly different way than ordinary criminals.
He said: “The Bangladeshi prison code or incarceration rules do not mention anything like keeping convicts in a condom cell, but they are kept in a separate cell. It can be called a kind of custom.”
A condom cell usually houses one or three prisoners.
Shamsul Haider said: “It is generally thought that if there are two prisoners, they can plan to escape secretly, but if there are three, the plan is no longer secret. Based on that idea, two prisoners are not kept in a condom cell.”
According to prison rules, a minimum of 36 square feet (6 feet by 6 feet) of space must be allocated for an inmate to stay. However, in the case of condom cells in prisons in Bangladesh, this number is slightly higher, Siddiqui said.
Although a prisoner’s condom cell is typically 10 feet by 6 feet, the cell size is slightly larger in many Bangladeshi fishermen, Siddiqui said. And the size of the cells where the three prisoners are found is greater.
Condom cells often have much smaller light and ventilation windows than other cells. Inmates in these cells are allowed to leave the cell for a certain period of time during the day.
Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said: “At one point, the inmates in the condom cell were not required to leave their cell. There are cases where they have not been released from the cell year after year. So now all the prisoners are it allows them to go outside at a certain time of day. “
Inmates in condom cells have the opportunity to receive visits one day a month.
“Once upon a time, visitors could come to meet inmates in the condom cell inside the jail. But now, one day a month, they have the opportunity to meet visitors at the jail door.”
An inmate can receive up to 5 visitors at a time. Prison authorities generally take a family list of each detainee in the condom cell, except for a few who are not allowed to meet the detainee in the condom cell.
Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said: “Visitors can generally meet with prisoners one day a month, but in special circumstances, visitors are sometimes allowed to meet the defendant in the condom cell within 15 days.”
What happens if the sentence is changed in the superior court?
Occasionally, a person is sentenced to death by a court of law, but later a higher court changes his death sentence.
There are several such cases in Bangladesh where the sentence of a convict sentenced to death has been reduced or commuted after appealing to the higher court.
Shamsul Haider Siddiqui commented that it usually takes a long time to obtain a final verdict in such cases.
In these cases, the prisoner must remain in a condom cell until the higher court overturns the death penalty.
Shamsul Haider said: “Until the High Court overturns the death sentence, the detainee must remain in the condom cell. The detainee must follow the rules and go to court proceedings from the condom cell.”
And in many cases, the prisoner has to stay in a condom cell for years. Siddiqui said there is a precedent for a prisoner in a condom cell in Bangladesh for more than ten years.
However, in the history of Bangladesh, many women have been executed so far, but so far no women have been officially executed.
Source: BBC
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