Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina has refused to apologise for the deadly crackdown on street protests that ultimately led to her downfall last year, as part of a rare and wide-reaching interview with The Independent.
A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, concluding a months-long trial that found she ordered a deadly crackdown on last year’s student-led uprising. Prosecutors in Bangladesh had accused her of crimes against humanity by ordering the use of lethal force against student protesters, resulting in up to 1,400 deaths.
