Bangladesh News | People In Dhaka React After Tribunal Issues Death Sentence For Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka and major Bangladeshi cities remained calm on Tuesday, with services and shops operating normally, despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, 78, was sentenced to death in absentia by the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday for her involvement in the deadly crackdown on a student uprising last year that led to the collapse of her 15-year rule. While her party, the Awami League, rejected the proceedings as a "kangaroo court," police reported a normal situation in the capital, though some citizens expressed tension over the nation's future. Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, who was also sentenced to death, fled to India last year, making their execution or imprisonment unlikely.