With Bangladesh sentencing former PM Sheikh Hasina to death, and the ousted leader still hiding in India, the future of her Awami League party looks grim. https://p ...

A Bangladesh court has sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, concluding a months-long trial that found she ordered a deadly crackdown on last year’s student uprising. The ruling ...

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A court in Bangladesh’s capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, British ...

Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death. She was ousted in student-led protests in which up to 1 400 people were killed. Hasina rejected the charges against her and ...

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death by a tribunal today for ordering a deadly crackdown on student protesters who successfully toppled her government last year.