‘Let her bring the best lawyers’: Bangladesh ‘welcomes’ Hasina’s possible return, says she must face justice
"We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice," Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
"We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice," Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
Sheikh Hasina said there has been no communication with the authorities in Dhaka over her proposed return. The tribunal also ordered the confiscation of her properties and sentenced former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death while awarding a five-year jail term to former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.
Hasina said that the death penalty awarded to her in Bangladesh is a result of an "illegal, unconstitutional, and politically motivated process."
The report, titled "Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh," was published on February 12, 2025.
In her message, Sheikh Hasina said that the verdict of the people of West Bengal is a "clear reflection of their deep trust and admiration for Suvendu Adhikari’s strong and people-oriented leadership."
The conviction of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal with death and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun with five years imprisonment by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal is a political farce, does not meet basic international standards for fair trial, and is a miscarriage of justice for the victims, stated the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG).
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is against the death penalty imposed on Sheikh Hasina by a Bangladesh court, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
Advocate Rabindranath Ghosh, lawyer of jailed ISKCON priest Chinmoy Krishna Das, stated that the judgment made by the tribunal is "not based on facts and circumstances of the case", a day after a court awarded a death sentence to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for "crimes against humanity"
Bangladesh's Awami League party has called for a nationwide shutdown on Tuesday and announced demonstrations and protests from November 19–21 in the entire country while rejecting the "illegal" verdict of the country’s so-called International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) after conducting a "farcical trial" against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two others.
Following Sheikh Hasina's conviction, Yunus said, "Justice will not merely survive in Bangladesh. It will prevail and sustain."
