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Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina handed death sentence in absentia
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|November 18, 2025
BANGLADESH'S deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death after a domestic war-crimes tribunal found her guilty of directing a violent suppression of last year's student-driven uprising.
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Hasina, who has lived in India since fleeing Dhaka in August 2024 after a 15-year tenure, was tried in absentia. The proceedings followed months of hearings on the crackdown, during which UN estimates suggested that as many as 1,400 people may have been killed. Officials from the interim administration have offered lower figures,
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