Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death over a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last year.

A Bangladesh court sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her niece, UK MP Tulip Siddiq, in a land scam case. Hasina received a five-year term, Siddiq two years, and Hasina's sister seven years.

A sweeping corruption case unfolds through the voices and actions of those involved, tracing how a disputed government land project led to life sentences for Sheikh Hasina and Tulip Siddiq while the fallout deepened for an already embattled political family.

The 43-year-old had resigned as a Treasury minister in British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Cabinet earlier this year as the allegations of corruption against her family hit worldwide headlines.

Sheikh Hasina, the ousted former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death by a special tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to the fatal crackdown on a student uprising last year that led to the end of her 15-year rule.

A Bangladesh court sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison for land corruption. Her niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq, received a two-year sentence, and Hasina's sister, Sheikh Rehana,

Soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) slaughtered 74 people, including senior officers, during the two-day revolt in 2009 that started in Dhaka before spreading across the country.

"Hasina carried out the massacre to serve Indian interests and extend her hold on power," Rakin Ahmed Bhuiyan, son of slain BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed, said at the event titled "BDR Investigation Commission Report: Families' Reactions" at Dhaka's Mohakhali Rawa Club.