Sheikh Hasina sentenced to 21 years in prison over corruption cases

A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years of imprisonment in three corruption cases filed by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Purbachal New City Project.

The latest verdict comes just days after Bangladesh’s ICT on November 17 pronounced a death



sentence for Hasina after it found her guilty on the charges of crimes against humanity related to the demonstrations in July of last year. 

It also convicted two of Hasina’s top aides, sentencing former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, who turned state witness, to five years’ imprisonment.