NEW DELHI: 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.

“I wholly deny the accusations that have been made against me in the ICT,” Hasina said after she was sentenced to death on Monday by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)

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