India, Nov. 18 -- Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death on Monday after she was found guilty of committing crimes against humanity. Responding to the verdict, the ex-PM's son Sajeeb Wazed has rejected the ruling against his mother, stating that the verdict was given through a "sham trial".

Wazed, in an interview to a news portal, vowed that the Awami League would fight against the verdict and the trial, which he claims was orchestrated by an illegal government.

"This was a sham trial. It was completed in just two to three months. They changed the law to deliver this verdict. My mother was not even allowed to hire her own attorney. This is absolutely a sham, nothing else. The verdict was predetermined," Ne...