Sheikh Hasina Verdict LIVE Updates: Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) has began reading its verdict in the case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is being tried in absentia over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year’s student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government. The three-member tribunal will also pronounce its judgement against Hasina’s two aides, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, over the same charges. Mamun was produced before the tribunal.
Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for the accused.
The Muhammad Yunus regime has, meanwhile, heightened security across Dhaka and other areas amid sporadic violence and crude bomb attacks ahead of the special tribunal’s highly anticipated verdict. Bangladesh has been in political turmoil since the end of Hasina’s 15-year iron grip on Dhaka, and violence has marred campaigning for elections expected in February 2026. According to the United Nations, up to 1,400 people were killed in crackdowns as Hasina tried to cling to power, deaths that were central to her trial.
Prosecutors have filed five charges against Hasina, including failure to prevent murder, amounting to crimes against humanity under Bangladeshi law. The trial has heard months of testimony in absentia alleging she ordered mass killings. She has called the trial a “jurisprudential joke”.
