New Delhi: Reacting to a special court’s order sentencing her to death for ‘crimes against humanity’, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday “wholly denied” the allegations against her and said the ruling was “biased and politically motivated”.

In a statement released by her party, the Awami League, Hasina said the death penalty order revealed a “brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures” within the interim government of Mohammad Yunus and accused the tribunal of being presided over by “an unelected government with no democratic mandate”.

Hasina has been living in exile in New Delhi since last year, when she fled Dhaka following a student uprising that turned violent. She was being probed for her government’s actions during the July-August 2024 protests, when an e

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