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'Troubling': Shashi Tharoor Questions Trial In Absentia As Hasina Sentenced To Death

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    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has expressed serious concern over the death penalty handed to former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by a special tribunal in Dhaka.
40% : "In their distasteful call for the death penalty, they reveal the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government to remove Bangladesh's last elected prime minister and nullify the Awami League as a political force," she said.
39% : "Both domestically and abroad, I don't believe in the death penalty.
38% : "A trial in absentia where somebody doesn't get a chance to defend themselves, explain themselves, and then you declare a death penalty...
37% : Tharoor reiterated his long-standing opposition to capital punishment.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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