A mob demolished the house where Sheikh Hasina's father was killed, and a tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia and ordered her assets confiscated

Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He and most of his family were killed at their house, Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka, in a military coup on 15 August 1975. Hasina and her sister Rehana were in Germany and survived. Hasina returned in 1981 and turned the house into a memorial museum, opened in 1994. A memorial trust holds it. She was prime minister until a student-led uprising in 2024 and has since lived in exile in India. On 5 February 2025, after she gave an online speech accusing the interim government of seizing power unlawfully, crowds set the house on fire and tore it down. On 17 November 2025 the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced her and her former home minister to death in absentia for crimes against humanity in the crackdown. It ordered their assets confiscated and told the government to compensate the families of those killed. Her 2024 election affidavit listed about Tk 4.34 crore, including inherited farmland, a Purbachal plot and a country house at Mouchak once owned by her father. On 1 December 2025 Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 sentenced her to five years, Rehana to seven, and Rehana's daughter Tulip Siddiq, a British MP, to two, over a 10-katha state plot in Purbachal. Status: convicted in absentia in both cases, not in custody; the agency to carry out the confiscation had not been decided when Prothom Alo reported.