A special tribunal in Dhaka has found Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina guilty of alleged crimes against humanity. Hasina, 78, has been accused of violently crack-downing on student-led protests last year, during which the UN estimates up to 1,400 people died.
Those protests forced Hasina from office and she has been living in exile in India ever since. Security has been accelerated across Bangladesh over fears of a backlash, with some protests already breaking out this morning, according to BBC.
The 2024 protest ended Hasina’s 15-year “authoritarian” rule marked by allegations of suppression of dissent, and...