Megaphones mounted on rickshaws broadcast the verdict which found Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced her to death, but the hundreds of people waiting outside the entrance to Dhaka’s high court were slow to react.
Few understood the English-language ruling, which was competing with the usual honking of horns from the main road behind them, and the chatter that surrounded small-scale businesses selling tea, snacks and cigarettes.
“The killer Hasina got death-sentenced, we just got the verdict,” one group eventually started chanting. A man, carrying a poster showing Hasina’s neck in a noose, took off a shoe and began hitting her face with it. “I am the happiest ever, I just heard about the news,” he shouted.
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