Fugitive ex-PM says polls without her party risks deepening divide


Fugitive ex-leader Sheikh Hasina warned that holding elections without her party – the first since her overthrow – was “sowing the seeds” of further division in her country.

In written responses to AFP, her first interview since being ousted, Hasina also condemned her crimes against humanity trial as a “jurisprudential joke”, adding she believed a guilty verdict was “preordained”.

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