Hasina, Bangladesh and International Crimes Tribunal
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Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, despite its name, functions entirely as a domestic court. Operating under national laws, it faces criticism for political influence, limited safeguards, selective prosecutions and lacking genuine international legitimacy.
Bangladesh’s capital and major cities are calm despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by supporters of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
The International Crimes Tribunal is, in the South Asian context, primarily a domestic special court system in Bangladesh, which was set up to investigate and prosecute individuals accused of committing major atrocities during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
The meeting took place just days after Bangladesh's Ministry of External Affairs urged India to deport Sheikh Hasina, who was handed a death sentence by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for alleged “crimes against humanity.
This special report examines the political and diplomatic fallout from the death sentence handed to former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the country's International Crimes Tribunal for alleged crimes against humanity.
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