Major international media outlets today gave significant coverage with some publishing live updates on Sheikh Hasina's verdict in a crimes against humanity case at the International Crimes Tribunal-1.
BBC, Al-Jazeera and Reuters live streamed the event and outlets such as CNN, AFP, and The Guardian also gave it prominent coverage. Indian media outlets provided regular updates throughout the day.
The BBC report titled, "Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death," said she has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over the crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting last year.
It said the verdict now poses a diplomatic challenge for India and Bangladesh.
"Dhaka has formally requested her extradition but so far India has shown no willingness to comply," it reads.
Reuters said Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in her absence on Monday at the end of a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
"People in the packed courtroom -- including families of victims -- cheered and clapped, and some in the crowds outside sank to their knees and offered up prayers after the verdict, the harshest against a leader in the country's history," it added.
Al-Jazeera too kept giving live updates for its readers throughout the day. In its highlights, it said, "The 78-year-old fugitive politician was on trial in absentia for being the 'mastermind and principal architect' behind last year's suppression of mass demonstrations, in which some 1,400 people were killed."
CNN said, "Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that led to the collapse of her government."
A panel of three judges from the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court, delivered the verdict, ruling that Hasina was responsible for inciting hundreds of extrajudicial killings carried out by law enforcement, added the CNN report.
Indian outlet The Hindu said, a special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death after finding them guilty of crimes against humanity over the state crackdown on a student uprising in July-August 2024.
NDTV, meanwhile, wrote: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death in a case over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year's student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government.
Pakistan's Dawn reported, Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina, sentenced to death in absentia on Monday for her deadly crackdown on student protesters last year, has been a dominant figure in the South Asian nation for half a century, a career rooted in bloodshed.
Most of the global news sites also mentioned a statement from Hasina which claimed that the death penalty was the interim government's way of "nullifying Awami League as a political force" and that she was proud of her government's record on human rights.
"I am not afraid to face my accusers in a proper tribunal where the evidence can be weighed and tested fairly," the BBC quoted the statement.