Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity over her government’s violent crackdown on student-led protests last year.
The 78-year-old fugitive politician was on trial in absentia for being the “mastermind and principal architect” behind last year’s suppression of mass demonstrations, in which some 1,400 people were killed
The tribunal delivered three categories of punishment for the five charges against Hasina, Khan and Al-Mamun.
It gave death penalty to Hasina on two counts, imprisonment until natural death on one count, and property confiscation on the rest.
To Khan, the court sentenced the death penalty on two counts, a life term equivalent on others, and property confiscation.
Former police chief al-Mamun was sentenced to five years in prison, since he had turned a state witness.
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