Security has been tightened across Bangladesh ahead of a tribunal verdict on Monday in a case against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, with the police in the capital Dhaka issuing shoot-at-sight order against violent protesters.

Hasina, who has been living in India since August 2024, is being tried in absentia over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year's student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), which, according to Prosecutor Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim, is expected to sit at 11 am, will also deliver its verdict against Hasina's two aides, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, over the same charges.

Hasina, 78, faces multiple ch

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