Big SHOCKER! Death Penalty Sought for Ex-PM Sheikh Hasina Amid Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

In a stunning development, Bangladesh prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing her of corruption and abuse of power. The move has triggered massive political upheaval and protests across Dhaka, deepening divisions in the country’s turbulent political landscape. Watch the full report.

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00:00Bangladesh prosecution lawyers demanded on the 16th of October that fugitive ex-prime minister

00:12Sheikh Hasina receive the death penalty in her trial for crimes against humanity.

00:18Hasina has defied court orders to return from India, where she fled last year, to face charges

00:24of ordering a deadly crackdown in a failed attempt to crush a student-led uprising.

00:30According to the United Nations, up to 1,400 people were killed in the clashes between July

00:37and August 2024.

00:41Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam told reporters outside court,

00:45we demand the highest punishment for her.

00:47The prosecutor added, for a single murder, one death penalty is the rule.

00:53For 1,400 murders, she should be sentenced 1,400 times.

00:59But since that is not humanly possible, we demand at least one.

01:04The prosecution alleges that Hasina, 78, was the nucleus around whom all the crimes committed

01:11during the July-August uprising revolved.

01:15She is being tried in absentia alongside two former senior officials.

01:20Her ex-interior minister, Asad Uzzaman Khan Kamal, is also a fugitive, while former police

01:27chief Chowdhury Abdullah al-Mamun is in custody and has pleaded guilty.

01:32The prosecution said that Kamal should also face the death penalty.

01:36The trial, which opened on June 1, has heard months of testimony alleging Hasina's role

01:42in ordering or failing to prevent mass killings.

01:45Her goal was to cling to power permanently, for herself and her family, prosecutor said,

01:52adding.

01:53She has turned into a hardened criminal and shows no remorse for the brutality she has committed.

02:03Prosecutors have filed five charges, including failure to prevent murder, which amount to crimes

02:09against humanity under Bangladeshi law.

02:13Hasina's now-banned Awami League says that she categorically denies the charges.

02:18Hasina has a state-appointed lawyer but refuses to recognize the court's authority.

02:24The trial is in its final stages, with the interim government aiming to steer the Muslim majority

02:30nation of 170 million towards elections in February.

02:35Witnesses have included a man whose face was ripped apart by gunshot during the culmination

02:40of the protests.

02:42The prosecution also played audio tapes, matched by police with verified recordings of Hasina,

02:48that suggested she directly ordered security forces to use lethal weapons against protesters,

02:55and that wherever they find them, they will shoot.

02:58Hasina, already convicted in July for contempt of court and sentenced in absentia to six months

03:06in prison, also faces ongoing corruption cases.

03:10Relatives, including her daughter Saima Weyzed, who has served as a senior UN official,

03:16and her niece Tulip Siddique, a British lawmaker, also face corruption charges, which they deny.

03:23The daughter of a revolutionary who led Bangladesh to independence in 1971, Hasina presided over

03:31breakneck economic growth.

03:33Critics accused her government of unjustly jailing her chief rival, passing draconian anti-press

03:40freedom laws and perpetrating a litany of rights abuses, including the murder of opposition

03:46activists.

Big SHOCKER! Death Penalty Sought for Ex-PM Sheikh Hasina Amid Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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