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DHAKA - A court in Dhaka on Monday sentenced to death Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, finding her guilty of crimes against humanity committed last year during mass demonstrations against her government.
The Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal pronounced the verdict against Hasina and her former aides.
Hasina fled to India on Aug 5 last year at the height of a mass uprising against her government, which led to the deaths of over 1,400 people.
She was later charged with crimes against humanity, among other cases.
The mass student-led uprising last year ousted Hasina's Awami League government, which had ruled the South Asian nation for over 15 years.
Hasina committed crimes against humanity in the cases, the court said in the verdict, adding that Hasina was the "superior commander of all the atrocities.”
"The crimes happened in her (Hasina's) cool knowledge," read a three-member tribunal, led by Justice Md. Golam Mortuza Mozumder, from the 453-page judgment. - BERNAMA