Anti-India Yunus receives massive boost as Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina sentenced to 6 months in prison for…
Dhaka: In a significant development from Bangladesh, Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to six months in prison by the International Crimes Tribunal. As per local media reports, the former Bangladesh PM received the punishment in a contempt of court case by a Bangladeshi Tribunal. Here are all the details you need to know about the case of Sheikh Hasina.
As per a report by the Daily Star newspaper, a three-member panel of the tribunal-1 (ICT), led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order after reviewing a leaked phone conversation involving the ousted Awami League leader that circulated on social media last year. It marks the first time that 72-year-old Hasina has been sentenced in any case since she left office in August last year.
What are the allegations against Sheikh Hasina?
The reports also talks about a audio clip, in which the ousted premier is allegedly heard telling former Gobindaganj upazila chairman and banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Shakil Akand Bulbul, “I have had 227 cases filed against me, so I have received a licence to kill 227 people.”
The tribunal considered the statement contemptuous and a direct attempt to undermine the court.
The tribunal also convicted and sentenced Bulbul to two months’ imprisonment, the state-run BSS news agency reported. In its judgment, the tribunal said the sentences would come into effect from the day of their arrest or surrender, it added.
Hasina faces multiple cases in Bangladesh after being ousted on August 5 last year following a major student-led agitation in the country, which forced her to flee Dhaka.
What happened after Muhammad Yunus took over?
After Hasina’s ouster, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of an interim government in Bangladesh in August last year.
Most leaders of the Awami League and ministers of the past regime, including several officials, were arrested or were on the run at home and abroad as the government initiated their trial for brutal actions to tame the uprising, leaving several hundred people, including students, dead.
(With inputs from agencies)
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