The International Crimes Tribunal-1 has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted from power in a mass uprising, to death. The news of Sheikh Hasina’s death sentence has been widely reported by international media. From Western media to media in various South Asian countries including India, the news has been featured in major news reports on Monday.
The news agencies AFP and Al Jazeera have published the news under the headline ‘crimes against humanity’. However, both the BBC and Reuters have headlined ‘Sheikh Hasina’s death sentence for suppressing student movements’.
According to the news agency AFP, ‘A court in Bangladesh has sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday for crimes against humanity.’ The report further states, ‘Judge Golam Mortuza Majumdar, while reading out the verdict, said that Sheikh Hasina was found guilty on three charges. The charges include incitement to murder, ordering murder and failure to prevent the atrocities committed. “We are giving her only one sentence, the death penalty,” he said.
The war crimes tribunal has sentenced ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for ordering the crackdown on student-led protests last year, Reuters reported. The verdict was announced on Monday after a months-long trial.
The court also said that no former Bangladeshi leader has been given such a dramatic legal step in decades. The verdict came ahead of parliamentary elections due in early February.
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera news agency reported under the headline “Bangladesh’s Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity,” saying, “A special tribunal has sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death. After months of trial, the tribunal said she ordered the use of lethal force during student-led protests last year.”
The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death in a case of crimes against humanity, Indian media outlet NDTV reported. The court found Hasina guilty on three charges. The months-long trial proved that she ordered the use of lethal force during a student-led uprising last year that led to the fall of her Awami League government.
The report also said that the three-member tribunal, headed by Md. Golam Mortuza Majumder, also pronounced the verdict against two of Hasina’s close aides, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, on the same charges.
The court said the three accused had collaborated with each other to carry out atrocities aimed at killing protesters across the country. However, the former police chief’s sentence was commuted because he had “apologized to the tribunal and the people of the country”.
Pakistani media outlets The Dawn and Geo News followed AFP and Reuters in reporting on the matter. The headlines of the two outlets were ‘Bangladesh’s ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for crackdown on students’ and ‘Bangladesh’s ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for crackdown on student protests’ respectively.
The fugitive former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina has been sentenced to death on charges of crimes against humanity, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The media outlet said a Dhaka court sentenced the former prime minister to death on Monday. The report further said that Hasina fled to India on August 5 last year. At that time, there were major protests against her government. More than 1,400 people died in the unrest at that time, and the court held her responsible for the massacre.
The British media outlet BBC published a news under the headline ‘Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for brutally suppressing protests’. The report said that a Bangladeshi tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for her harsh crackdown on anti-government protests last year. The trial was held in her absence as Hasina, who was convicted of various crimes against humanity, is in exile in India.
The US media outlet CNN reported that the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has been sentenced to death. She was found guilty of crimes against humanity in the suppression of student protests last year.’
The report also said that ‘A panel of three judges from the International Crimes Tribunal, a war crimes court set up in Bangladesh, announced the verdict on Monday. They decided that Hasina was responsible for inciting and encouraging hundreds of external killings carried out by police and law enforcement agencies.’
The British media outlet The Guardian also published almost the same news. Apart from The Guardian, India’s The Hindu, Indian Express, Pakistan’s Express Tribune, British newspaper Financial Times and media outlets from various countries have reported the news of Sheikh Hasina’s death sentence with great importance.
