6 hours agoFormer Bangladesh prime minister sentenced to six months in prison
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Bangladesh's self-exposed and self-exicuted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has been sentenced to six months in prison by the International Court of Country Crimes on Wednesday in a case of contempt of the court, a senior prosecutor said. Hasina has faced many cases since she fled to India after the deadly protests led by students [...]
Bangladesh's self-exposed and self-exicuted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has been sentenced to six months in prison by the International Court of Country Crimes on Wednesday in a case of contempt of the court, a senior prosecutor said.
Hasina has faced many cases since she fled to India following the deadly protests led by students in August, but it was the first time the former leader was sentenced to one of them.
The allegations of contempt stem from a published telephone recording where Hasina was allegedly heard saying: “ka 227 cases against me, so now I have a license to kill 227 persons”, reports Klankosova.tv, broadcast Periscopi.
A forensic report by a government investigative agency later confirmed the authenticity of the audio.
The Bangladesh interim administration, led by Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, pledged to retain leaders, including Hasina, responsible for rights violations and corruption, including the crackdown on the student-led uprising that overthrew the Hasina regime last July. /Periscopi/
