Why India likely won’t return Hasina to face Bangladesh death penalty
Al Jazeera
Bangladesh protesters applaud death penalty for former PM. But she is far from the gallows, in India.
New Delhi, India – Shima Akhter, 24, was in the middle of football practice when her friend stopped the session to break some news for her: Sheikh Hasina, the fugitive former prime minister of Bangladesh, had been sentenced to death.
To the University of Dhaka student, it felt like a moment of vindication.
Several of Akhter’s friends were killed in a crackdown on protesters by Hasina’s security forces last year before Hasina finally quit office and fled Bangladesh. The International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, which tried the 78-year-old leader for crimes against humanity, sentenced Hasina to death after a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on the uprising last year.
“The fascist Hasina thought she could not be defeated, that she could rule forever,” Akhter said from Dhaka. “A death sentence for her is a step towards justice for our martyrs.”
But, Akhter added, the sentencing itself wasn’t enough.
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