A tribunal stood up by Bangladesh’s interim government on Wednesday sentenced, in absentia, fugitive former dictator Sheikh Hasina to six months in the clink after she was found in contempt of court for claiming she had a “license to kill” at least 227 protestors in last year’s uprising that ended with her fleeing to India, the AP reports, noting this is the tip of the iceberg against her.

The “contempt” charge seems based on something a little closer to the colloquial sense of the word rather than any motions by her defense that pissed off the judges – in fact she hasn’t even sent a lawyer to the trial, likely to avoid being seen as legitimizing it – but from leaked of a supposed phone call between Hasina in which she told a leader of the student wing of her Awami League political party that “There are 227 cases against me, so I now have a license to kill 227 people.”

Hasina’s larger trial for crimes against humanity remains ongoing. The tribunal judges ordered Hasina and her former home minister to respond by May 15 and got no answer. When they failed to do so, the tribunal summoned them May 25 to appear in court June 16 and nothing. Later the tribunal published notices in newspapers asking Hasina to appear. Guess how that went.

Also guess which old hag in 2009 signed the law establishing this very tribunal system, originally created to investigate and try crimes involving Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, specifically members of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party she saw as collaborators.