Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, first took office in 1996. (Wikimedia Commons Photo)

Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was awarded death sentence by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) after it found her guilty of crimes against humanity. The ruling caps a months-long trial that concluded she had ordered a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

Updates on the verdicts for her co-accused, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and ex-police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, are still pending. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for all three, according to PTI .

Al-Mamun was the only defendant present in court on Monday. He pleaded guilty in July for his role in last year’s unrest and testified

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