Deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -File Photo

DHAKA, Nov 27, 2025 (BSS) – The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) will appeal to the Supreme Court (HC), seeking to enhance the life sentences awarded to deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death penalty in a crimes against humanity case related to the 2024 July Uprising.

“The death penalty will be sought by increasing the sentence in the life-term imprisonment,” ICT prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim told this today. 

Replying to a query, he said, “We have received the verdict awarded on November 17 . . . We have seen that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal have been sentenced to life imprisonment on one count."

"Both of them have been sentenced to death on another charge. The prosecution has initially decided to appeal to the Appellate Division against the charge on which former PM Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal have been sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence for this charge will be increased to death penalty.”

The lawyers have received a full copy of the verdict sentencing ousted premier Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister to death. Meanwhile, the tribunal also found former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun guilty of these charges, but awarded him a ‘Lenient Sentence’ of five years' imprisonment for making a full disclosure of the events and cooperating the investigators as approver. 

On November 17, the lawyers of all parties in this case confirmed that they have received a full copy of the historic verdict announced by the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by Justice Md. Golam Mortuza Majumder.

Besides, allegations were filed with the ICT alleging that the erstwhile  Awami League Government, its party cadres, and a section of the law enforcement agencies, including the government-loyal administration, committed genocide and crimes against humanity in suppressing the mass uprising of students and the public in July-August 2024. 

Now, the trial of all those allegations is underway in two international crimes tribunals.