Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, has been convicted of crimes against humanity.
It follows a months-long trial in the country that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
The former leader, exiled in India, was tried in absentia after the United Nations said up to 1,400 people may have been killed in the violence.
Bangladesh's health adviser under the interim government said more than 800 people were killed and about 14,000 were injured.
The prosecution has been seeking the death penalty for Hasina.
Paramilitary border guards and police have been deployed in Dhaka and many other parts of the country.
It comes after Hasina's Awami League party called for a nationwide shutdown as part of a protest against the verdict.
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