New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday slammed the Dhaka court verdict sentencing her to death, calling it "biased and politically motivated".
In a statement released after the verdict, Hasina said the tribunal was "rigged" and run by "an unelected government with no democratic mandate".
"The verdicts announced against me have been delivered by a rigged tribunal. They are biased and politically motivated," she said.
She said that her government had "lost control of the situation but cannot characterize what happened as a premeditated assault on citizens."The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court, has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death over a crack...