Former Bangladesh PM sentenced to death

前孟加拉国总理被判死刑

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2025-11-18

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Sheikh Hasina, in exile in India, was sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity. The former Prime Minister was found guilty of ordering the use of lethal force against protesters, resulting in the deaths of around 1,400 people. Hasina denies the charges and her supporters say they are politically motivated. Also on the programme: we ask what led to Donald Trump’s sudden U-turn on the Epstein files; and the discovery of two organ pieces by a teenaged Johann Sebastian Bach. (PICTURE: Bangladeshi Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman addresses the media in Dhaka, 17 November 2025 CREDIT: MONIRUL ALAM/EPA/Shutterstock)
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  • she was the longtime leader of Bangladesh, with 15 years in power and counting.

  • Today, Sheikh Hasina, the former Bangladeshi prime minister,

  • has been sentenced to death by a special tribunal in the capital Dhaka for crimes against humanity.

  • She wasn't there.

  • Sheikh Hasina is in safe, self-imposed exile in India,

  • but plenty turned out to the court to hear the verdict.

  • And this was the moment it came.

  • We have decided to inflict up with only one sentence that is sentence of death.

  • Meanwhile, outside the court, a huge crowd broke into celebratory chanting there.

  • Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power last year after weeks of mass protests in the end,