Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of a student protest that killed as many as 1,400 people last year.
Hasina was tried in absentia by an international crimes tribunal that she created during her 15-year rule.
"Sheikh Hasina committed crimes against humanity by her incitement, order and failure to take punitive measures," one of the judges said. Some of the victims' families were in the courtroom for the verdict and applauded and cried when the sentence was announced.
The judges said it was "crystal clear" that she "expressed her incitement to the activists of her party ... and furthermore, she expressed that she ordered to kill and eliminate the protesting students."
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