After Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, was sentenced to death in absentia for “crimes against humanity”, the interim government in Dhaka urged India to immediately extradite the deposed leader. Hasina has been living in exile in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of a student-led uprising that ended her 15-year iron-fisted rule.
Hasina, along with her former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who is also believed to be in India, was earlier declared a fugitive by the court. Hasina was convicted on five charges of crimes against humanity and was sentenced to prison until natural death for making inflammatory remarks and ordering the extermination of student protesters through the use of helicopters, drones, and lethal weapons.
She was handed the death penalty on charges of shooting and killing six protesters in Dhaka’s Chankharpul area on August 5 last year.
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