Dhaka, Nov. 17 -- The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced ousted Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity for her attempts to suppress the July Uprising.

Hasina, who ruled the country for a decade and a half with an iron fist, has fled to India since she was ousted from power by a student-led uprising 15 months ago. She is the first former head of the Bangladesh government to be given the death penalty.

The capital punishment was handed down to Hasina by the International Crimes Tribunal, the court that her government formed to try the war crimes of 1971, reports bdnews24.com.

Death sentences had been carried out for five top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and a member of the BNP by the tribunal...