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...Verdict: Toss...
...party's huge win in the 1970 poll, another pivotal election. Bangladesh was still East Pakistan; when West Pakistan refused to accept the result a brutal military crackdown followed and, eventually, the 1971 war of independence. That isn't the case now. The military has accepted the voters' verdict, which was delivered as 200,000 local and international election observers looked on, although the opposition has raised objections to what it says are voting irregularities...
...Verdict: Skim...
...Abedin's public reaction to her verdict confirms what human-rights groups say is another challenge of controlling forced marriage through legal mechanisms: the victims rarely want to use the law to punish their parents. "I'm relieved that I'm free. I'm happy," Abedin told reporters on Dec. 14 after being released in Dhaka. "But I don't have any bad feelings towards my parents." Speaking outside court, Abedin insisted that she does not want her parents to be prosecuted, as she still loves them...
...jurors in the case were sequestered and remained anonymous, an unusual arrangement which was ordered by the judge. In a statement accompanying the verdict, they described the decision as "one of the most difficult things that we have ever had to do....The burden imposed on us has been heavy, but we are confident that our verdict has been reached fairly and impartially...