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A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday (Nov 17), concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a former Bangladeshi leader in decades and comes months ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February.

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00:00A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday,
00:11concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown
00:15on a student-led uprising last year.
00:17For all these three counts, we have decided to inflict her with only one sentence,
00:27that is sentence of death.
00:30The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a former Bangladeshi leader in decades
00:49and comes months ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February.
00:55Hasina's Awami League party has been barred from contesting,
00:58and it is feared that Monday's verdict could stoke fresh unrest ahead of the vote.
01:04The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court located in the capital,
01:10Dhaka, delivered the verdict amid tight security and in Hasina's absence after she fled to India
01:16in August 2024, Hasina got a life sentence under charges for crimes against humanity
01:23and the death sentence for the killing of several people during the uprising.
01:28There was cheering and clapping in the court after the death sentence was pronounced.
01:32The verdict can be appealed in the Supreme Court.
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