India, Nov. 17 -- A Bangladeshi tribunal on Monday gave death sentence to former premier Sheikh Hasina after convicting her of crimes against humanity, including directions for the use of lethal weapons, while cracking down on student-led protests in July-August 2024 that ultimately led to the ouster of her government.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), a domestic war crimes court, also gave her a separate sentence of imprisonment until death after convicting her of inciting, facilitating, being complicit in, and failing to prevent crimes against civilians by law enforcement and armed cadres of the Awami League party.

The chairman of the ICT, justice Mohammad Golam Mortuza Mozumder, read out the verdicts against the 78-year-old fo...