The 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been in India since August 2024, was tried in absentia over crimes allegedly committed during student-led agitations that year

The 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been in India since August 2024, was tried in absentia over crimes allegedly committed during student-led agitations that year

The 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been in India since August 2024, was tried in absentia over crimes allegedly committed during student-led agitations that year

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was found guilty of alleged crimes against humanity by the country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD).

The 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been in India since August 2024, was tried in absentia over crimes allegedly committed during student-led agitations in 2024 that led to the fall of her government.

The tribunal has also reportedly said that she deserved maximum punishment for her "crimes against humanity".

Sheikh Hasina has earlier told THE WEEK in an exclusive interviewin which she called the prosecution "compromised", and said that the court was "weaponised for the political ends of an unelected government, with the sole aim of silencing opposition".

The case also includes former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, who is in custody and has pleaded guilty.

The police chief, who became a state witness, was the only person among the accused to physically appear in court for the hearing.

(This is a developing story. More details are awaited.)

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