Bangladesh tribunal indicts ex-PM Hasina over protester deaths

Deposed premier curate and others are indicted for crimes against humanity, with proceedings acceptable for August.

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has indicted erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 2 elder officials implicit alleged crimes against humanity linked to a deadly crackdown connected protesters during past year’s July uprising.

The tribunal, led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder and comprising justices Shafiul Alam Masud and Mohitul Enam Chowdhury, formally charged Hasina connected Thursday.

Proceedings volition statesman connected August 3 with opening statements, followed by the archetypal witnesser testimony.

Hasina, who fled to India pursuing a student-led uprising past August, had been facing respective charges. Earlier this month, successful a abstracted ruling, she was sentenced to six months successful situation for contempt of tribunal by the ICT. That had marked the archetypal clip she had received a ceremonial condemnation successful immoderate of the cases.

Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam said that the sentence delivered successful absentia volition instrumentality effect if Hasina is arrested oregon voluntarily returns to Bangladesh.

The 2 different accused connected Thursday are erstwhile location curate Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and erstwhile constabulary main Chowdhury Abdullah al-Mamun. While al-Mamun appeared earlier the tribunal and remains successful custody, some Hasina and Kamal person fled abroad.

The charges stem from Hasina’s present ousted government’s convulsive effect to mass demonstrations, which critics accidental resulted successful wide quality rights abuses and hundreds of deaths.

Hasina, who present lives successful self-imposed exile successful India aft being deposed pursuing a 15-year rule, has dismissed the tribunal arsenic politically motivated.

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