Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was convicted for "crimes against humanity" during the student protests in July 2024, by the country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday, November 17, 2025.

"Accused Sheikh Hasina be found guilty on three counts of charges of incitement, order to kill and failing to take punitive action against the perpetrators," the tribunal said.

"The court awards Hasina a sentence of imprisonment till natural death under charge 1... On all the charges against her, the court decides to inflict her with a sentence of death," the court added, as the courtroom burst into an applause.

Former Bangladesh home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamum were also co-accused in the case of alleged

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