Bangladesh's Ousted Leader Sheikh Hasina Sentenced To Death For Crimes Against Humanity
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Hasina, who has been in exile in India, was tried in absentia.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday to death on charges of crimes against humanity involving last year’s mass uprising that killed hundreds of people and ended her 15-year rule.
The tribunal also sentenced former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in the case while a third suspect — a former police chief — was sentenced to five years in prison as he became a state witness against Hasina and pleaded guilty.
The deliberation of the verdict from the tribunal in the capital, Dhaka, was broadcast live.
The interim government beefed up security ahead of the verdict, with paramilitary border guards and police deployed in Dhaka and many other parts of the country.
Hasina’s Awami League party has called for a nationwide shutdown to protest the verdict.
