File image of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
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Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was on Wednesday (July 2, 2025) sentenced to six months in jail by the International Crimes Tribunal in a contempt of courtroom case, in accordance to media stories.
A 3-member panel of the tribunal-1 (ICT), led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, handed the order after reviewing a leaked telephone dialog involving the ousted Awami League chief that circulated on social media final yr, The Daily Star newspaper reported.
It marks the primary time that 72-year-old Ms. Hasina has been sentenced in any case since she left workplace in August 2024.
In the audio clip, the ousted premier is allegedly heard telling former Gobindaganj upazila chairman and banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) chief Shakil Akand Bulbul, “I have had 227 cases filed against me, so I have received a licence to kill 227 people.”
The tribunal thought-about the assertion contemptuous and a direct try to undermine the courtroom.
The tribunal additionally convicted and sentenced Mr. Bulbul to two months’ imprisonment, the state-run BSS information company reported.
In its judgment, the tribunal mentioned the sentences would come into impact from the day of their arrest or give up, it added.
Multiple instances
Ms. Hasina faces a number of instances in Bangladesh after being ousted on August 5 final yr following a main student-led agitation in the nation, which pressured her to flee Dhaka.
After Ms. Hasina’s ouster, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took over as the pinnacle of an interim authorities in Bangladesh in August final yr.
Most leaders of the Awami League and ministers of the previous regime, together with a number of officers, had been arrested or had been on the run at house and overseas as the federal government initiated their trial for brutal actions to tame the rebellion, leaving a number of hundred individuals, together with college students, useless.
Ms. Hasina and her regime leaders are being prosecuted in Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, fashioned in 2010 for attempting hardened collaborators of Pakistani troops throughout the 1971 Liberation War on expenses like crimes in opposition to humanity.
Published – July 02, 2025 03:52 pm IST