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November 18, 2025

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Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on Jan 8, 2024. A court yesterday sentenced the ousted prime minister to death for crimes against humanity.

(AFP)

A Bangladesh court yesterday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, with cheers breaking out in the packed court as the judge read out the verdict.

Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her.

The highly anticipated ruling, which was broadcast live on national TV, comes ahead of the first polls since her overthrow in August 2024.

“All the... elements constituting crimes against humanity have been fulfilled,” judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder read to the packed court in Dhaka.

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