India, Nov. 17 -- Exiled former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday denounced the death sentence handed down against her by a domestic war-crimes tribunal as a "rigged" verdict delivered by a court controlled by the unelected interim government that ousted her in August.

In a five-page statement issued by the banned Bangladesh Awami League, Hasina accused Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who now leads the country as chief adviser, of weaponizing the International Crimes Tribunal to eliminate her and erase her party from political life. The tribunal, she said, "reveals the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures" in Yunus's administration and has no legitimacy because it was set up by a government "no citizen of Bang...