In a major development in Bangladesh, a Dhaka-based special tribunal on Monday handed down death sentences to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. Former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun was sentenced to five years in prison.

A three-member tribunal, led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, delivered the ruling in a court session that was broadcast live. Also Read | From student protests to death sentence — A timeline of Sheikh Hasina's trial

The basis for the court judgement

The case concerns crimes committed during the Hasina government’s crackdown on a student uprising in 2024, an event which claimed hundreds of lives and led to the overthrow of her 15-year rule.

Both Hasina and Khan were accused of ordering the killing of

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