Bangladesh Tribunal Sentences Former Dhaka Police Chief, Two Others to Death

• Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) sentenced former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman, former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, and additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Akhtarul Islam to death.
• The three police officers were found guilty of their role in violent street protests in 2024 that led to the ouster of then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
• The tribunal cited 'superior command responsibility' for the death sentences, holding them liable for the actions of their subordinates.
• This is the second verdict by the restructured ICT-BD, which previously sentenced deposed premier Hasina and then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in absentia.
• The officers were tried in absentia after being declared fugitives, while others received prison terms ranging from three to six years for their involvement in the incident where six people were killed in Dhaka's Chankharpul area.

Why It Matters: Former Dhaka police chief and two others received death sentences from a Bangladesh tribunal for 2024 protest violence.