The Dhaka Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal on February 10 sentenced eight cadres of the banned extremist outfit Ansar-al-Islam, also known as the Ansarullah Bangla Team, to death for murdering Jagriti Prakashani publisher Foysal Arefin Dipon on October 31, 2015, reports New Age. Six of the convicts Moinul Hasan Shamim (24), Mohamad Abdus Sabur (23), Khairul Islam (24), Mohamad Abu Siddique Sohel (34), Mohamad Mozammel Hossain Saimon (25), Mohamad Sheikh Abdullah (27), all ABT members, heard the verdict from the dock without showing any emotional response. Ansar-al-Islam leaders — sacked Army Major Syed Ziaul Haque alias Zia and Akram Hossain — faced the trial in absentia and are still in hiding.