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A court in Dhaka on Monday sentenced Bangladesh’s fugitive former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, finding her guilty of crimes against humanity committed during last year’s mass demonstrations against her government, Anadolu reports. Amid tight security, the Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal delivered the verdict in absentia since Hasina remains in India. Hasina committed crimes against humanity, the court said in the verdict, adding that she was the “superior commander of all the atrocities.” “The crimes happened in her (Sheikh Hasina’s) cool knowledge,” the three-member tribunal, led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, read from the 453-page judgement. “All the conditions of being a case of crimes against humanity were proved” in Hasina’s case, it said. Those sentenced to death […]
