A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Nov. 17 sentenced ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for her role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the July 2024 uprising that toppled her regime the following month. She has been residing in India since fleeing there in August 2024. Her banned political party, the Awami League, staged a lockdown on Nov. 13, as ongoing unrest in the days surrounding the verdict led to police and paramilitary forces deployed around government buildings and the tribunal complex, and tight security across the nation.
A usually busy highway in Dhaka appears almost empty as the Awami League of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina holds a lockdown on Nov. 13, ahead of Hasina's verdict announcement on Nov. 17. (Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)
Police inspect motorcycles and other vehicles at entry points and key locations in Dhaka on Nov. 12. (Photo by MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Demonstrators against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gather in front of security forces after a Bangladeshi court sentenced Hashina to death in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
Security forces take precautions in front of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father's onetime residence in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Abdul Goni/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Protesters gathering to destroy the largely demolished Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, the onetime residence of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father, clash with Bangladesh security forces in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)
Security forces engage a protester in front of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father's onetime residence in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Abdul Goni/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Protestors gather at the Awami League's building in Dhaka after setting fire to the party's central office in Dhaka on Nov. 13. (Photo by Maruf Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Security forces tighten measures around former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father's onetime residence in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
People run from a sound grenade fired by police to disperse demonstrators, ahead of the verdict on cases against the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Abdul Goni/Reuters)
Security forces clash with protestors near former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father's onetime residence in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Md. Rakibul Hasan Rafiu/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Security forces at former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father's onetime residence in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Bangladesh Army personnel stand guard around the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka on Nov. 13. (Photo by Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Members of student organization Jatiya Chhatra Shakti march with torches in the Dhaka University area demanding the severest punishment for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Nov. 16. (Photo by MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Members of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti march with torches in the Dhaka University area in Dhaka on Nov. 16. (Photo by MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Media members wait outside the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka on Nov. 17, before judges read a verdict finding ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity and giving her a death sentence. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Journalists wait outside the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
People watch on a big screen at Dhaka University the verdict of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the International Crimes Tribunal crimes against humanity case in Dhaka on Nov. 17. (Photo by Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A man holding a poster of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is interviewed by journalists outside the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka on Nov. 17, after Hasina was found guilty of crimes against humanity and given a death sentence. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Muhammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, briefs the media in Dhaka on Nov. 17, after the verdict on charges of crimes against humanity for a deadly crackdown on student-led protests in 2024 against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
Dhaka University students raise victory signs and erupt in celebration at the university in Dhaka on Nov. 17, after the International Crimes Tribunal delivers the death sentence to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity. (Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)
A man reads a newspaper with a front-page headline about the verdict sentencing ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against humanity for ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year in Dhaka on Nov. 18. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
