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muriel_volestrangler

(105,223 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 05:37 AM 14 hrs ago

Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity

Source: The Guardian

Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

A three-judge bench of the country’s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill, and inaction to prevent atrocities, carried out as she oversaw a crackdown on anti-government protesters last year.

Reading the verdict to the court, Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder said the “accused prime minister committed crimes against humanity by her order to use drones, helicopters and lethal weapons” against civilians.
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The months-long tribunal tried and sentenced Hasina in absentia. Since she fled the country in August last year, Hasina has been living in exile – and under protection – in neighbouring India, and the Indian government has ignored requests for her extradition to face trial.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/17/ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity

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Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago OP

I try to keep up with world news and have read recent AP, BBC and the Guardian pieces... hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #1

I admit I haven't kept up with the situation there muriel_volestrangler 13 hrs ago #2

The Islamists have pretty much taken over JI7 9 hrs ago #5

Now THAT'S the way you do it! mwb970 11 hrs ago #3

If only.... travelingthrulife 10 hrs ago #4

No government should have the power of life and death Mysterian 8 hrs ago #6

trump take note. republianmushroom 8 hrs ago #7

hlthe2b

(112,148 posts)

1. I try to keep up with world news and have read recent AP, BBC and the Guardian pieces...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:17 AM

13 hrs ago

--but honestly, I still don't have a grasp on what has been happening and why... Have the (relative) "good guys" in terms of a new regime been restored, or is this just for show? I know she and her defense minister have fled and are in exile in India, but exactly what happened during the past years is not totally clear. This is what happens when we have a thug like Trump in office--nothing gets reported except his latest deranged ramblings...

muriel_volestrangler

(105,223 posts)

2. I admit I haven't kept up with the situation there

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:34 AM

13 hrs ago

After Sheikh Hasina was ousted as PM (the most powerful position), Muhammad Yunus, an economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of microcredit, was installed as a caretaker leader, with the title "Chief Adviser".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Shahabuddin, although from the same party as Hasina, remained as President, though that position is largely ceremonial.

Elections are set to be held in 2026: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bangladeshi_general_election

Yunus seems like an honest person, and had had relatively little involvement in politics before the crisis, so I hope an election will happen. But what the parties that are standing claim or intend to do, I have no idea - Hasina's party has been banned from the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awami_League