India, Nov. 18 -- Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus on Monday welcomed the death penalty handed down to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the country's International Crimes Tribunal, saying the ruling underscores that "no one is above the law" and recognizes the suffering of students killed in protests last year that led to her ouster and escape to India.

Hasina was found guilty on three counts: incitement, ordering killings, and failing to prevent atrocities. "We have decided to inflict her with only one sentence, that is, sentence of death," Judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder announced.

In a statement posted on X, Yunus said the verdict offers "vital, if insufficient, justice to the thousands harmed in the uprising of July and...