Wazed vowed that the Awami League would fight against the verdict and the trial, which he claims was orchestrated by an illegal government.

Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death on Monday after being convicted of crimes against humanity, a ruling her son Sajeeb Wazed has vehemently rejected, calling the proceedings a “sham trial”.

Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was awarded death sentence by the country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) after it found her guilty of crimes against humanity.

O usted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected claims that the United States played a role in removing her from power, saying she has found no “decisive evidence” of foreign interference in the dramatic political shifts that forced her into exile last year.

Prosecutors in Bangladesh have demanded that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina be put to death over a deadly crackdown on student-led protests last year that ousted her from power. Hasina, who has fled to India,

Advocate Rabindranath Ghosh, lawyer of jailed ISKCON priest Chinmoy Krishna Das, stated that the judgment made by the tribunal is "not based on facts and circumstances of the case", a day after a court awarded a death sentence to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for "crimes against humanity" He noted that there should be a cross-examination between the accused's lawyer and the prosecution in cases involving the death penalty.

A Bangladesh court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

Security has been heightened outside the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) ahead of the announcement of the verdict in the case accusing ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal,

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office as head of Bangladesh’s interim government Thursday after protests forced out former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this week. The key tasks for Yunus now are restoring peace in ...