Newsroom, November 17, 2025: Bangladesh edged closer to a pivotal moment with the International Crimes Tribunal set to deliver its verdict Monday against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on five counts of crimes against humanity, including killings and torture during last year's deadly student-led protests that ousted her.
Prosecutors demand the death penalty, with the ruling to air live on state TV and the tribunal's Facebook page; Hasina, in exile in India, dismissed the case as "entirely false" in an audio clip, vowing it won't silence her.
Sunday brought a wave of unrest: crude bomb blasts rocked Dhaka without casualties, while arson gutted a police station vehicle, Grameen Bank branches, and buses, killing one driver.
The Awami League called a two-day shutdown. Dhaka police chief SM Sazzat Ali authorised shooting violent rioters, and home affairs adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury affirmed the judgment's enforcement.
