Dhaka: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) on Monday, November 17, ordered death sentence for former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for "crimes against humanity" committed during the widespread protests against her government in July last year.

Earlier, she was declared a fugitive by the court. Hasina was tried in absentia. The historic judgement concluded that former Bangladesh PM and the two other accused, former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, had orchestrated and enabled atrocities during the July-August movement.

While pronouncing the verdict, the tribunal said the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Hasina was behind the deadly crackdown on student-led protests between July 15 and

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