Sheikh Hasina’s death sentence ‘deeply disturbing’: Shashi Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said the death sentence given to Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina is “deeply disturbing”. He also claimed the verdict has alarmed him.

Earlier, on Monday a special tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity. She fled and took shelter in India after being ousted in a student-public uprising in August last year.

Indian news outlet NDTV reported the information on Tuesday, November 18.

Shashi Tharoor told reporters, “I am not in favour of the death penalty, whether inside the country or outside. So this verdict has particularly alarmed me. It is not appropriate to comment on another country’s judicial system, but I must say that this is not a positive development. It is extremely disturbing.”

Notably, in the case over the July massacre of twenty-four, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death by hanging alongside life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

In the same case, former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, who turned approver and testified against the former prime minister and former home minister, has been sentenced to five years in prison.