Kathmandu. Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed has been sentenced to death.

Today, the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (IBC) issued a case of

He was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to this sentence.

Hasina has been sentenced to death for human rights crimes over violent crackdown on protests last year.

The 78-year-old fugitive politician is being tried in absentia on charges of being the “mastermind and master architect” of last year’s mass protests that killed nearly 1,400 people.

The 2024 uprising ended 15 years of Hasina’s “totalitarian” rule, which was marred by accusations of repression of dissent, extrajudicial arrests and killings.

After losing power, she has been in exile in India.