Ex-Bangladesh leader sentenced to death
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. A tribunal in Dhaka found she had ordered security forces to kill protesters during student-led anti-government demonstrations in 2024. The UN estimates up to 1,400 people died during the uprising, most by gunfire. Sheikh Hasina was tried in her absence and has been living in exile in India since being forced from power. She has dismissed the court's verdict as politically motivated.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 17th of November. |
| 0:18.3 | The ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is sentenced to death over the |
| 0:22.3 | killings during last year's uprising. The UN humanitarian chief calls for aid workers and |
| 0:27.9 | investigators to be allowed urgent access to the devastated Sudanese city of Elfasha. |
| 0:32.9 | And a U-turn from President Trump on the Epstein files. |
| 0:38.9 | Also in the podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | This is a room where my whole family was killed. |
| 0:44.0 | Even though it's painful for me to come to this house, I insist on coming here to remember my siblings, my parents and the life we used to live. |
| 0:53.3 | A BBC investigation raises doubts about the trial of Americans accused of killing Iraqi civilians two decades ago. |
| 1:04.6 | A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death. |
| 1:09.8 | She was found guilty of crimes against humanity |
| 1:11.9 | over the killing of hundreds of people |
| 1:13.5 | during the uprising against her last year. |
| 1:16.2 | She was tried in absentia after fleeing to India |
| 1:19.1 | and called the verdict biased and politically motivated. |
| 1:23.0 | As the judge announced the death penalty, |
| 1:25.2 | there were cheers inside the court in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. |
| 1:28.8 | We have decided to inflict her with only one sentence, that is sentence of death. |
| 1:40.0 | Security was tight in Dhaka following a series of crude bomb attacks in recent days. |
| 1:45.8 | Fawarama of the Asia Society Policy Institute says the verdict will deepen the political divide in Bangladesh. |
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