Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia on Monday, ending a monthslong trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. The 453-page judgment, delivered by the country’s three-judge International Crimes Tribunal, offered the harshest ruling ever imposed on a Bangladeshi leader.

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Crimes Against Humanity

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia on Monday, ending a monthslong trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. The 453-page judgment, delivered by the country’s three-judge International Crimes Tribunal, offered the harshest ruling ever imposed on a Bangladeshi leader.

“Sheikh Hasina committed crimes against humanity by her incitement, order, and failure to take punitive measures,” one judge said.

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