A major university has had to upend its policies after an honorary degree recipient was charged with crimes against humanity.

The Australian National University has approved a more comprehensive procedure to strip people of honorary degrees after former Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina was accused of crimes against humanity.

A special tribunal has indicted the former leader by accepting the crimes against humanity charges after mass protests in 2024 when hundreds of students were killed.

The charges describe her as the "mastermind, conductor and superior commander" of atrocities including mass killings, injuries and targeted violence against women and children.

She was awarded an honorary law degree by the university in 1999.

The university said it hadn't stripped such a degree in rec

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