STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Today is the 28th death anniversary of Shazneen Tasnim Rahman.

On this day in 1998, 15-year-old Shazneen was brutally raped and murdered in a premeditated attack at her home in Gulshan. At the time, she was a ninth-grade student at Scholastica school.

She was the daughter of late Latifur Rahman, former chairman of Transcom Group, and Shahnaz Rahman, current chairman of the group. Shazneen was the youngest among four siblings. Her elder sister Simeen Rahman is the chief executive officer of Transcom.

More than 19 years after the incident, the convict in the Shazneen rape and murder case, Shahidul Islam, alias Shahid, was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Prison in Gazipur in 2017.

A Special Tribunal for Prevention

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