A court in Bangladesh sentenced ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity on Monday, for her role in a crackdown on last year’s student-led uprising which the United Nations says left up to 1,400 people dead.
The country’s International Crimes Tribunal, a domestic war crimes court in the capital Dhaka, also sentenced Hasina’s home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, to death.
A three-member tribunal announced the ruling in a session that was broadcast live and lasted several hours.
Hasina and Khan fled to India in August last year and were sentenced in absentia. A third suspect, a former police chief, was sentenced to five years in prison after becoming a state witness against Hasina and pleading guilty to crimes against humanity.
