Hasina and collegue Asaduzzaman sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s ICT, Mamun secures relief through betrayal

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, November 17, 2025

As anticipated well in advance , Bangladesh’s so-called International Crime Tribunal (ICT) today sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and fugitive former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death after a sham trial and commuted the expected sentence of death for former police chief and IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun to five years of rigorous imprisonment on the cooked up charges of ‘crime against humanity’. Police chief Abdullah Al Mamun secured partial relief by giving false testimony against Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and collaborating with the sham yearlong trial in a treacherous manner. All the assets belonging to Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will also be seized by the state, although traitor Mamun secured a relief on this count.

A three-member panel of ICT-1, led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mazumder, began reading the long-awaited verdict around 12:40pm after months of hearings in the landmark case.

The tribunal found that all three exercised command responsibility over killings, torture and the use of lethal force during the 2024 student-led protests.Hasina was convicted on three counts under Charge-2, while Kamal and Mamun were found guilty on two counts for abetting the use of drones, helicopters and live ammunition, and for failing to restrain the forces under their command.

Except in the case of Abdullah Al Mamun, the ICT’s motivated verdict will have virtually no effect as the ousted former minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is safely sheltered in India while Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal also fled abroad, possibly in a European country shortly after the forced change of power in Bangladesh in August last year. Sources from Bangladesh said that the illegitimate interim regime of Bangladesh led by viscerally anti-India Md Yunus will approach the Interpol authority for a red corner notice to have Sheikh Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Jamal back in the country to face the gallows but that dream is unlikely to materialise.

Sources said that the interim regime of Bangladesh propped up by fundamentalist elements has sounded a red alert all over the country with shoot-at-sight orders to security forces to prevent any outbreak of agitation and violence against the ICT’s verdict. However sporadic protests have already started in different parts of the country against the motivated and one-sided verdict against the ousted prime minister and the home minister and the situation is reportedly tense. Massive protests are likely to break out soon and the security forces including the army are preparing to crackdown on protesters against the ICT judgment.

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