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(CNN) - A Bangladeshi court sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a teenage girl who was burned after she reported sexual harassment.
The decision in the Feni district of southeastern Bangladesh, about 160 kilometers southeast of the capital, Dhaka, comes six months after Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was killed.
Rafi had filed a complaint of sexual harassment with the local police and appointed the director of his school, Siraj Ud Doula, as one of the defendants.
Police spokesman Banaj Kumar Muzumdar said Doula then hired several people to kill the teenager and ordered the perpetrators to make her death look like suicide.
Members of the Transparency International group in Bangladesh make a human chain during a protest on April 21 in Dhaka following the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi.
On April 6, Rafi was taken outside her school classroom and to the roof, where a group of men dressed in burqas gagged and immobilized her. They were soaked in kerosene and set it on fire, Muzumdar said in May.
Rafi was able to make an official statement before succumbing to his injuries four days later.
His case provoked protests across the country with people demanding justice for the student.
The director was one of 16 sentenced to death on Wednesday. Each of the 16 also received a fine of $ 1,183.
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