Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia after finding her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on last year’s student-led uprising, which the UN estimates left up to 1,400 people dead.
Hasina, who fled to India in 2024 and has denounced the ruling as politically motivated and issued by a “rigged tribunal,” was convicted on charges including murder, attempted murder, torture, and authorising the use of lethal force.
Former Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and ex-police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun were also charged, though only Al-Mamun appeared in court.
The interim government led by Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus has barred Hasina’s Awami League from contesting the 2026 elections, while protesters marched in Dhaka ahead of the verdict.
Who would of issued the use of violence on the peaceful demonstration outside the Beehive in 2022? That single person should be locked up.