Bangladesh Sentences Seven Hasina-Era Leaders To Death
The tribunal also ordered confiscation of half the assets of five convicts, with proceeds to be distributed to families of July uprising victims.
- On Tuesday, the three-member Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal sentenced seven aides of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity committed during the 2024 monsoon uprising.
- The 2024 monsoon uprising that ousted Hasina's government resulted in at least 1,400 deaths according to the United Nations, prompting the tribunal to sentence the former Prime Minister to death last November.
- Convicts include Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and former state minister for Information Mohammad Ali Arafat, both currently fugitives in India or the United States; the tribunal ordered confiscating half their assets.
- Across multiple verdicts, the tribunals have convicted 68 individuals connected to the 2024 protests, with 22 sentenced to death; only four remain in custody.
- Despite her own death sentence handed down last November, the 78-year-old former Prime Minister remains in self-imposed exile in India and has vowed to return to Bangladesh this December.
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Seven leaders of the former ruling Awami League Party in Bangladesh were sentenced to death in absentia for suppressing protests in the summer of 2024, wrote BSS. The International Criminal Tribunal of Bangladesh imposed capital punishment on former high-ranking Awami League officials. The Court found them guilty of crimes against humanity, handed over RIA News. "The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 found guilty and sentenced to death seven…
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced seven people, including senior leaders of the Sheikh Hasina government, to death for their charges of brutally suppressing a popular uprising in 2024. According to AFP and dpa news agencies on the 15th, the International Criminal Tribunal for Bangladesh (ICT) announced that the defendants, charged with crimes against humanity and other offenses...
(Jakarta=Yonhap News) Correspondent Son Hyun-kyu = A former general who participated in the bloody suppression of student protests two years ago when former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was in power...
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