{"id":30008,"date":"2025-11-17T04:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30008"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:22:07","slug":"ousted-former-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-sentenced-to-death-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/17\/ousted-former-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-sentenced-to-death-for-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, has been sentenced to death after being convicted of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

It follows a months-long trial in the country that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.<\/p>\n

The former leader, exiled in India, was tried in absentia after the United Nations said up to 1,400 people may have been killed in the violence.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh’s health adviser under the interim government said more than 800 people were killed and about 14,000 were injured.<\/p>\n

Hasina, who previously called the tribunal a “kangaroo court”,\u00a0fled to India in August 2024<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the height of the uprising, ending 15 years of rule.<\/p>\n

In a statement released after the verdict, Hasina said the ruling was “biased and politically motivated”.<\/p>\n

“I am not afraid to face my accusers in a proper tribunal where evidence can be weighed and tested fairly,” she added.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the country to independence.<\/p>\n

The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh’s domestic war crimes court located in the capital Dhaka, delivered its verdict amid tight security.<\/p>\n

Hasina received a life sentence under charges for crimes against humanity and the death sentence for the killing of several people during the uprising.<\/p>\n

The verdict, which was broadcast live on state television, can be appealed in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The packed courtroom cheered and clapped when the sentence was read out.<\/p>\n

The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a former Bangladeshi leader since independence in 1971 and comes ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in February.<\/p>\n

Paramilitary border guards and police have been deployed in Dhaka and many other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

It comes after Hasina’s Awami League party called for a nationwide shutdown as part of a protest against the verdict.<\/p>\n

The mood in the country had been described as tense ahead of Monday’s verdict.<\/p>\n

At least 30 crude bomb explosions and 26 vehicles were torched across Bangladesh during the past few days.<\/p>\n

Hasina is also the aunt of former UK government minister, Tulip Saddiq, who resigned from her Treasury job at the start of this year.<\/p>\n

She had faced calls to step down over links to her aunt and was also said to be\u00a0facing a corruption trial<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Ms Siddiq told Sky News in August the accusations were “nothing more than a farce” and said she had never been contacted by the Bangladeshi authorities.<\/p>\n

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Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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