Sentenced to death after a trial held in absentia in Bangladesh, a defiant Sheikh Hasina on Monday (November 17) alleged that the verdict was delivered by a “biased” and “rigged tribunal” set up and overseen by an “unelected government with no democratic mandate.”

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In a strongly-worded statement, the 78-year-old Awami League leader, who has been living in India since she was deposed as the prime minister of Bangladesh on August 5 last year following massive violent protests, said the verdict reveals the “brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government” against her and her party.

Questions fairness of trial

“I wholly deny the accusations that have been made against m

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