Overview
- Under tribunal rules described by prosecutors, Hasina can only appeal if she is arrested or surrenders within 30 days.
- Co-accused former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal also received a death sentence, while ex–police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al‑Mamun was jailed for five years after cooperating.
- The court found she incited and ordered lethal force and failed to stop killings during the 2024 student uprising, with a UN report estimating up to 1,400 deaths.
- Authorities tightened security with checkpoints, armored vehicles and shoot-on-sight directives as crude bombings, arson and a shutdown called by Awami League supporters were reported.
- Hasina remains in exile in New Delhi and rejects the court’s legitimacy, as Dhaka’s extradition request to India is unresolved and elections expected in February 2026 exclude the Awami League from contesting.