Pakistan, July 2 -- Bangladesh's fugitive ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina has denied accusations that she committed crimes against humanity, her state-appointed defence lawyer said Tuesday.
Up to 1,400 people were killed between July and August last year, according to the United Nations, when Hasina's government ordered a crackdown on protesters in a failed bid to cling to power.
Hasina fled to India at the culmination of the student-led uprising in August and has defied orders to return to Dhaka, where her trial in absentia opened on June 1.
Prosecutors have filed five charges against Hasina - abetment, incitement, complicity, facilitation, conspiracy and failure to prevent mass murder - that amount to crimes against humanity under Bang...