Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has demanded in a legal communication to Bangladeshi authorities that the death sentence given to her by a tribunal last year be set aside as “legally void”, and that any further proceedings against her be conducted in compliance with international fair trial standards. Sheikh Hasina moves ICT to set aside death sentence as “legally void”, demands fair trial safeguards and compliance with international standards. (AFP) These demands by Hasina, who has lived in self-exile in India since the fall of her government in August 2024 following weeks of student-led protests, were conveyed in a letter sent by her London-based solicitors Kingsley Napley to the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka. The move comes more than a month after the formation of a new government in Dhaka led by Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and at a time when some leaders of Hasina’s Awami League, currently in self-exile in India or Europe, are eyeing the possibility of returning home as part of efforts to revive the party. The International …