The UN welcomed the sentencing of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity as an important step for victims, but criticised the imposition of the death penalty, saying she should not have been sentenced to death.

For nearly two decades, Sheikh Hasina's name moved with the pulse of Bangladesh, sometimes steady, sometimes storm-tossed.

After a special court sentenced her to death, Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus’s regime has called for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition.