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Bangladesh tribunal seeks death penalty for former PM Sheikh Hasina
The Island
|October 18, 2025
A prosecutor, on Thursday (16 October 2025), in a special domestic tribunal in Bangladesh, sought the death penalty for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case involving charges of crimes against humanity in amass uprising last year that forced her to flee the country.
During the protests in July and August 2024, hundreds of people, including students, security officials and political activists, were killed in the weeks-long violence. Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam, in his closing arguments to the International Crimes Tribunal in the capital, Dhaka, also called for former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to be sentenced to death because of the gravity of his crimes.
In his closing, the prosecutor left a decision on the sentence for former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun up to the tribunal. Al-Mamun, who is in custody, became a state witness against Hasina and had Bangladesh prosecution seeks death penalty for ex-PM Sheikh Hasina over protest killings.
Hasina has been in exile in India after fleeing the country on 5 August last year. Khan is also believed to be in India.
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