Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death
A special tribunal found she was responsible for ordering a violent crackdown on student-led protests last year, during which the UN estimates up to 1,400 people died, most by gunfire from security forces
Hasina has called the court’s decision “biased and politically motivated” in a statement released after the verdict. She was tried in her absence and has been living in exile in India since being forced from power
The verdict will put India under pressure to extradite Hasina, Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, but it is unlikely to do so
Source: BBC
