Bangladesh beefs up security ahead of verdict against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina

The interim government in Bangladesh beefed up security in the nation’s capital and elsewhere Monday ahead of an expected verdict against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who faces charges of crimes against humanity involving last year’s uprising that killed hundreds of people and ended her 15-year rule.

Paramilitary border guards and police were deployed in Dhaka and many other parts of the country as Hasina’s Awami League party called for a nationwide shutdown Monday to protest against the verdict, calling the tribunal a “kangaroo court.”