Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death after the country’s International Crimes Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against humanity for the deadly crackdown on the protests against her government in 2024.
The verdict was the first in a series of four cases related to crimes allegedly committed during her government’s response to the several weeks of widespread student-led protests against the Awami League government in July and August 2024.
Hasina, however, described the tribunal as biased and politically motivated, and denied having ordered firing on protestors.
In its judgement, the tribunal said that the attacks during last year’s protests were “directed against the civilian population” and were “widespread and systematic”.
“In the atrocities of killing and gravely injuring protesters…accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina committed crimes against humanity by her incitement order and also failure to take preventive and punitive measures…,” Judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder said.
Mozumder added that Hasina committed “crimes against humanity by her order to use drones, helicopters and lethal weapons.”
Hasina was tried by the tribunal in absentia. She was sentenced alongside former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Abdullah al-Mamun.
The Bangladesh tribunal court also handed down a death sentence to Kamal, while al-Mamun was sentenced to five years of jail.
Among the accused, only al-Mamun was present...
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