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Dominic Giannini

ANU keeps award for ex-PM guilty of human rights crimes

The ANU bestowed an honorary law degree on Bangladesh's now former leader Sheikh Hasina in 1999. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The Australian National University remains inert on stripping the honorary degree it awarded a former leader convicted of crimes against humanity as internal processes drag on.

Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina was found guilty in absentia of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing of student protesters in 2024. 

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