Published: 17:13, November 17, 2025 | Updated: 17:19, November 17, 2025
Ousted Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina sentenced to death in absentia
By Xinhua
In this file photo dated Jan 7, 2024, then Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina (center) speaks to the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (PHOTO / AP)

DHAKA - A special tribunal in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Monday sentenced Bangladesh's ousted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in absentia to death for crimes against humanity during the country's July uprising last year.

Bangladesh's former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal was also awarded the death penalty.