The sentence was the first Hasina had received since she fled to India during a mass uprising last year that toppled her ...

A tribunal has sentenced Bangladesh’s former leader Sheikh Hasina to six months in jail after she was found in contempt of ...

Yunus took over three days after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a student-led mass uprising in August 2024, ending her 15-year rule. Hasina has been in exile in India since. The ...

Student activists demanding capital punishment for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the deaths of students during anti-quota protests, in Dhaka on August 13, 2024. Ahsan feels that ...

In August last year, the 15-year-long rule of Sheikh Hasina, who had been won a record fourth term as the Bangladesh prime minister only seven months ago, came to an abrupt end following violent ...

The irony is that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina now stands accused of crimes against humanity before the very tribunal she created in 2009 to try war criminals of the 1971 Liberation War. ...

In February, the U.N. human rights office estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks in the crackdown on the student-led protests against Hasina, who ruled ...

New Delhi/Dhaka: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two others on several charges, including mass murder, for their alleged ...

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal will, for the first time, live broadcast formal charges against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina over alleged crimes during last year’s mass uprising.

Of the 1,400 killed and thousands injured between July 1 and August 15, the vast majority were shot by Bangladesh’s security forces, the report said. Of these, 12% to 13% killed were children.

Hasina, who was ousted from office on August 5, 2024, following a mass student-led uprising, faces multiple cases linked to alleged crimes during the July–August violence that rocked the country.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal set up to try Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina began proceedings Sunday by accepting the charges against humanity filed against her in ...