Dhaka trembled under the weight of uncertainty as the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal rippled across Bangladesh. The announcement that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had been sentenced to death sent shockwaves through the nation. Within hours, her party headquarters at 23 Bangabandhu Avenue released a lengthy statement—her first direct response since the tribunal’s controversial rulings.

Hasina’s words were defiant. Calm yet forceful, she declared “the verdicts announced against me have been made by a rigged tribunal established and presided over by an unelected government with no democratic mandate.” She insisted that the tribunal was not a mechanism for justice but an instrument of political revenge designed to erase the Awami League from public life.

She reminded the

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