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The Digest:

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 21 years in prison on corruption charges, deepening the legal and political turmoil surrounding the exiled leader. The ruling, delivered in absentia, reflects a dramatic fall for a figure who once dominated the nation’s politics and now faces multiple severe sentences from afar.

Key Points:
  • Sheikh Hasina, 78, was convicted in three corruption cases involving the illegal acquisition of prime land in Dhaka.
  • The sentencing comes just days after she received a death penalty for crimes against humanity.
  • Hasina has been in India since fleeing Bangladesh in August 2024 amid mass protests.
  • Her two children, Sajeeb and Saima Wazed, were also sentenced to five years each.
  • The judge accused her of treating state land as personal property for family gain.
  • The prosecution plans to appeal, seeking a harsher penalty.
  • Hasina’s government was toppled following student-led protests against authoritarian rule.
…as verdicts accumulate from a distance, the legacy of a leader is being rewritten not in parliament, but in courtrooms she may never enter again.

Sources: Daily Post, Daily Trust