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A Bangladesh court has sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to be hanged for crimes against humanity, with cheers breaking out in the packed court as the judge read out the verdict.
Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising last year that eventually ousted her.
The highly anticipated ruling, which was broadcast live on national television on Monday (local time), came less than three months before the first polls in the South Asian country of 170 million people since her overthrow
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