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Accountability as Instrument: The Death Sentence Against Sheikh Hasina and the Weaponisation of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal
Arafat Hosen Khan is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Law School, a qualified English Barrister, an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and author of The Constitution of Bangladesh: People, Politics, and Judicial Intervention (Routledge, 2022). On 16 November 2025, Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity arising from the July–August...