The announcement of the verdict was broadcast live on Bangladeshi television.
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A court in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity.
The court there sentenced her to death for committing crimes against humanity in suppressing the July-August uprising last year. According to Bangladeshi media
The Daily Star , a three-member bench of the International Criminal Tribunal there issued this order against Hasina on Monday. The court tried Hasina without her presence while she was in exile in India. Before reading the 453-page verdict, Judge Mohammad Ghulam Murtaza Majumdar said that the verdict would be delivered in six parts. The announcement of the verdict was broadcast live on Bangladeshi television. Along with Hasina, former Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has also been sentenced to death. Similarly, former Inspector General of Police Chaudhry Abdullah Al Mamun has been sentenced to 5 years in prison. The court has also ordered the seizure of all the properties of Hasina and former Home Minister Kamal. Hasina was accused of killing about 1,400 people. The indictment also mentioned that more than 25,000 were injured in the protests in July-August.
