Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- Commenting on the Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal's verdict, Amnesty International's Secretary General Agnes Callamard has said this was not a fair trial and the victims of July 2024 deserve far better.

She said Bangladesh needs a justice process that is scrupulously fair and fully impartial beyond all suspicion of bias and does not resort to order further human rights violations through the death penalty, that her organisation fiercely opposes and campaigns to abolish globally.

'Only then can genuine and meaningful truth, justice and reparations be delivered," said Callamard while responding to Monday's decision by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal to sentence former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina an...