British News Agency

Sheikh Hasina was found guilty of allowing the use of lethal force against protesters in last year’s events, in which 1,400 people lost their lives.

Hasina was forcibly removed from power in July 2024 and sent into exile in India, and was tried in absentia by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Bangladesh.

Prosecutors accused her of being behind hundreds of killings during the protests, while families of those killed or injured demanded harsh sentences. Hasina rejected all charges, describing the trial as “biased and politically motivated.”

Hasina ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, overseeing economic progress, but increasingly sought to silence the opposition through politically motivated arrests, disappearances and extrajudicial executions.

The protests ultimately forced Hasina to flee, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the head of the interim government.