Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been awarded a death sentence by a Bangladeshi court, on Monday rejected the ruling, saying her trial was “biased” and “politically motivated”.

In her first reaction to the verdict, Hasina said there was nothing international in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), which delivered the judgment, calling it a “rigged” institution presided over by a government that has “no democratic mandate”.

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“Verdicts announced against me were made by a rigged tribunal established and presided over by an unelected government with no democratic mandate…I was given no fair chance to defend myself in court,” Hasina said in a statement.

Hasina acknowledged that her regime had indeed lost control of the situation, but asserted that th

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