{"id":75214,"date":"2025-11-17T19:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:42:25","slug":"ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-sentenced-to-death-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75214","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge bench of the country\u2019s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities as she oversaw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/bangladesh-anti-government-protests-dhaka-sheikh-hasina\">crackdown on anti-government protesters<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last yearBangladesh\u2019s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214\/revisions\/75218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}