{"id":75229,"date":"2025-11-18T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/18\/sheikh-hasina-why-has-the-former-pm-of-bangladesh-been-sentenced-to-death-video-explainer"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:31:37","slug":"sheikh-hasina-why-has-the-former-pm-of-bangladesh-been-sentenced-to-death-video-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75229","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Hasina: Why has the former PM of Bangladesh been sentenced to death? \u2013 video explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<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. The Guardian&#8217;s Hannah Ellis-Peterson describes the events leading up to the conviction and what this unprecedented sentencing means for the future of Bangladesh<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity\"><strong>Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/18\/sheikh-hasina-why-has-the-former-pm-of-bangladesh-been-sentenced-to-death-video-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. The Guardian&#8217;s Hannah Ellis-Peterson describes the ev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[327,62,80,2816,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-protest","category-sheikh-hasina","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75229","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75229\/revisions\/75238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}