Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accepts the greetings from the assembled media and election observers while addressing a press conference, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. A Bangladesh court on November 17, 2025, sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity. Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her in August 2024.