Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising in 2024. The verdict was delivered in Hasina's absence after she fled to India in August 2024, and comes ahead of parliamentary elections expected in February.

The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court, stated that prosecutors had found evidence showing Hasina directly commanded the use of lethal force to suppress protests between July and August 2024, which the United Nations reported left up to 1,400 people dead - the worst violence in the country since its 1971 independence war. Hasina's Awa...