Sheikh Hasina Found Guilty, Tribunal Says Deserves Maximum Punishment | Read

A Bangladesh court hearing the serious charges against the country's ousted Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said she deserves maximum punishment for crimes against humanity during the uprising in the neighbouring country last year. Ahead of the verdict, Hasina said the allegations against her were false and that she did not care about such verdicts.

In an audio message to her supporters ahead of the ruling of the International Crimes Tribunal, the Awami League leader has said the interim government under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus wants to finish off her party. "It is not so easy, Awami League has come up from the grassroots, not from the pocket of some usurper of power, " the 78-year-old said in Bengali.