23/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - EU criticises death sentence. In a press release on Tuesday, 22 January, the spokesperson for the EU high representative for foreign affairs criticised the previous day's decision by the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh to sentence, in absentia, Abul Kalam Azad to death, as part of the legal proceedings for crimes committed during the war preceding the independence of Bangladesh. The spokesperson said that “from the start of the trials, the European...