Sentenced to death after a trial in absentia in Bangladesh, a defiant Sheikh Hasina on Monday charged that the judgement has been made by a “biased” and “rigged tribunal” established and presided over by an “unelected government with no democratic mandate”.

In a strongly-worded statement, the 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been living in India since she was deposed as prime minister of Bangladesh on August 5 last year following massive violent protests, said the verdict reveals the “brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government” against her and her party.

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