Int'l media focuses on Sheikh Hasina's sentencing at ICT

Noted international media outlets on Monday gave significant coverage on Sheikh Hasina's verdict in a case filed on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the July-August Uprising in 2024. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 pronounced the verdict. BBC, Al-Jazeera and Reuters live streamed the event and outlets such as CNN, AFP, and The Guardian also gave it prominent coverage.

The BBC report titled, "Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death," said she has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over the crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting last year.

It said the verdict now poses a diplomatic challenge for India and Bangladesh.

"Dhaka has formally requested her extradition but so far India has shown no willingness to comply," it reads.

Reuters said Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in her absence on Monday at the end of a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

Al-Jazeera too kept giving live updates for its readers throughout the day. In its highlights, it said, "The 78-year-old fugitive politician was on trial in absentia for being the 'mastermind and principal architect' behind last year's suppression of mass demonstrations, in which some 1,400 people were killed."

CNN said, "Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that led to the collapse of her government." Indian outlet The Hindu said, a special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death after finding them guilty of crimes against humanity over the state crackdown on a student uprising in July-August 2024.

NDTV wrote: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death in a case over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year's student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government.

Pakistan's Dawn reported, Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina, sentenced to death in absentia on Monday for her deadly crackdown on student protesters last year, has been a dominant figure in the South Asian nation for half a century, a career rooted in bloodshed.

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