(MENAFN- Live Mint) Sheikh Hasina Death Sentence LIVE Updates: A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity during the country's student protest in 2024.

The highly anticipated ruling of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT court Bangladesh) was broadcast live on television.

"All the... elements constituting crimes against humanity have been fulfilled," judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder ruled.

The court has found ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun guilty of all the charges levelled against them.

Prosecutors filed five charges, including failure to prevent murder, amounting to crimes against humanity under Bangladeshi law.

The ruling came just ahead of the first polls in the country since her overthrow in August 2024.

Follow for live updates on Sheikh Hasina verdict today.

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The historic judgement concludes that Hasina and the two other accused, former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal had orchestrated and enabled atrocities during the July-August student protests last year.

Sheikh Hasina Verdict LIVE: Former Bangladesh PM sentenced to death

The International Crimes Tribunal has found Sheikh Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity as the ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister was sentenced to death on Monday.

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Sheikh Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her. She is still in India, however her exact whereabouts are unknown.

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Security forces surrounded the court for the verdict, with armoured vehicles manning checkpoints and thousands of police officers posted across the capital.

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Bangladesh's foreign ministry summoned India's envoy to Dhaka earlier this month, demanding that New Delhi block the“notorious fugitive” Hasina from talking to journalists and“granting her a platform to spew hatred”.

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