A Bangladeshi court has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (1996-2001 and 2009-2024) to five years in prison for corruption related to the Purbachal new city project, according to an international media report. This comes after the same former official was sentenced to death for a violent crackdown that occurred while she was in office. The court in the capital, Dhaka, also found her sister Sheikh Rehana and her daughter Tulip Siddiq guilty, sentencing them to different prison terms, but the mother faces a death sentence, according to articles from the Agencia Noticias Argentina. Convicted "in absentia" Last November, a special tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia for crimes against humanity committed during the protests that took place in the country in July 2024. The court demanded that the 78-year-old Sheikh Hasina return from India to face trial, a report by the Xinhua news agency recalls. The former prime minister is accused of ordering a violent police response to a student protest, which led to her ouster last year.
