A tribunal in Dhaka on Monday sentenced former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her interior minister to death for their role in suppressing student uprisings in July and August 2024. She resigned and fled to India shortly after the protests.

The chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), Judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder, ruled orally that Hasina was guilty on three counts: incitement, order to kill, and inaction to prevent atrocities, shown by “failing to take punitive actions against the perpetrators.” The Bangladeshi interim government has demanded that India abide by the extradition treaty so that it can carry out the sentence against Hasina, stating that “[p]roviding shelter to these convicts … will be considered an extremely unfriendly act and an affront

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