Ousted Bangladeshi PM Hasina Sentenced to Death in Absentia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Hasina resigned from her position in August and fled the Muslim-majority country of some 170 million people towards India, where she has remained since -- as a result, she was tried in court and given the death penalty in absentia.
40% : Siddiq has not publicly commented on the death sentence against her aunt at press time.
38% : "For the first time, they have seen the justice they were denied for so long," Karim said, stressing that "if justice matched the scale of her crimes" Hasina would face capital punishment "not once, but 1,400 times over.
37% : " "We had sought capital punishment because we showed, beyond any reasonable doubt, that she was responsible for the mass murder of the civilian protesters," Prosecutor Maynul Karim told the Telegraph.

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