New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Shekh Hasina has dismissed the death sentence handed to her by a "rigged" tribunal established and presided over by an "unelected government with no democratic mandate".
Terming the verdict as "biased and politically motivated", Hasina in a statement on Monday said that in their "distasteful call for the death penalty, they reveal the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government" to remove Bangladesh's last elected prime minister, and to nullify the Awami League as a political force.
She said Bangladeshis toiling under the "chaotic, violent and socially-regressive administration" of Mohammad Yunus will not be fooled by "this attempt to short-change th...