Dhaka, Nov 17: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), on Monday, convicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her two top aides on the charges of “crimes against humanity” related to the demonstrations in July of last year.

Hasina, 78, who has been living in India since her government was toppled on August 5 last year, was sentenced to death in absentia by a special tribunal. She was earlier declared a fugitive by the court.

Reading out the judgment before a heavily guarded courtroom in Dhaka, the tribunal said the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Hasina was behind the deadly crackdown on student-led protests between July 15 and August 15 last year.

A UN rights office report had earlier estimated that up to 1,400 people were killed during the month-

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