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Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the recording as crucial evidence against Hasina, who is being tried in absentia at a special tribunal for crimes against humanity.

He is now in Russia and has been sentenced in absentia by Ukrainian courts for collaborating with Moscow.

Both women have been sentenced in Belarus to 11 and 15 years respectively in trials held in absentia.

Iranian authorities considered Karimian a threat to Islamic values, and three months before his assassination an Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison.

Most had left the country and were tried in absentia.