Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death

Yasamin Tue Nov 2025 2 weeks ago 79

Hasina, who is living in exile in India after resigning and fleeing; she has denied these charges and stated that the issued verdict is "biased and political." In a statement, she declared: "I have no fear of facing my charges in a competent court where evidence can be examined and evaluated."


The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh has accused Sheikh Hasina of ordering the deadly use of security forces against student protesters. A United Nations report in February 2024 stated that during the protests against the government's job quota system, as many as 1,400 people may have been killed, most of them from gunfire by security forces. The report also provided evidence that the violent suppression of protesters and their supporters was an official policy.


Sheikh Hasina was born in 1947 in southwestern Bangladesh, which was then part of East Pakistan. She was the eldest of five siblings. After receiving a degree in Bengali literature from the University of Dhaka in 1973, she began her political activities as a liaison between her father and his student supporters.


Hasina entered the political scene after a military coup in which her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of Bangladesh's independence, and most of her family members were assassinated. She initially fought for democracy; however, her long tenure as Prime Minister was accompanied by the arrest of opposition leaders, suppression of freedom of expression, and restriction of critics' voices.

Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in absentia on Monday, November 17, by a court in Dhaka, the capital of the country, for the deadly crackdown on student protests last year.

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