{"id":9368,"date":"2025-10-24T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/verdict-against-bangladeshs-ousted-pm-hasina-set-for-nov-13\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:32:00","slug":"verdict-against-bangladeshs-ousted-pm-hasina-set-for-nov-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/verdict-against-bangladeshs-ousted-pm-hasina-set-for-nov-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdict against Bangladesh\u2019s ousted PM Hasina set for Nov 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheikh Hasina Wajed, now ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. — AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The verdict against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Wajid, who was accused of anti-humanity crimes during her tenure, will be pronounced on November 13, as the trial ended on Thursday, said the attorney general.<\/p>\n

Hasina, 78, has defied court orders to return from India to face charges of ordering a deadly crackdown in a failed attempt to crush a student-led uprising.<\/p>\n

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“If she believed in the justice system, she should have returned,” Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman said in his closing speech of the nearly five-month-long trial in Dhaka.<\/p>\n

“She was the prime minister but fled, leaving behind the entire nation— her fleeing corroborates the allegations.”<\/p>\n

Her trial in absentia, which opened on June 1, heard months of testimony alleging Hasina ordered mass killings.<\/p>\n

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Up to 1,400 people were killed between July and August 2024, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have filed five charges, including failure to prevent murder, amounting to crimes against humanity under Bangladeshi law.<\/p>\n

They have demanded the death penalty if she is found guilty.<\/p>\n

Chief prosecutor Tajul Islam has accused Hasina of being “the nucleus around whom all the crimes were committed” during the uprising.<\/p>\n

Her co-accused are former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, also a fugitive, and ex-police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, who is in custody and has pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n

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Witnesses included a man whose face was ripped apart by gunfire.<\/p>\n

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The prosecution also played audio tapes — verified by police — that suggested Hasina directly ordered security forces to “use lethal weapons” against protesters.<\/p>\n

Hasina, assigned a state-appointed lawyer, has refused to recognise the court’s authority.<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Md Amir Hossain said she was “forced to flee” Bangladesh, claiming that she “preferred death and a burial within her residence compound”.<\/p>\n

Her now-banned Awami League says she “categorically denies” all charges and has denounced the proceedings as “little more than a show trial”.<\/p>\n

Asaduzzaman, the attorney general, said it had been a fair trial that sought justice for all victims.<\/p>\n

“We want justice for both sides of the crimes against humanity case, that claimed 1,400 lives,” he said, listing several of those killed, including children.<\/p>\n

The verdict will come three months ahead of elections expected in early February 2026, the first since Hasina’s overthrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sheikh Hasina Wajed, now ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. — AFP The verdict against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Wajid, who was accused of anti-humanity crimes during her tenure, will be pronounced on November…<\/p>\n

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