Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal on Thursday (October 17, 2024) issued arrest warrants in opposition to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others
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Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal on Thursday (October 17, 2024) issued arrest warrants in opposition to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, together with prime Awami League leaders, in reference to alleged crimes against humanity through the current mass pupil motion.

The tribunal led by its Chairman Justice Md Golam Mortuza Majumdar, handed the orders after the prosecution filed two petitions with the tribunal, looking for arrest warrants in opposition to them, Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam was quoted as saying by the Every day Star.

The tribunal additionally directed the authorities involved to supply the 46, together with Ms. Hasina, earlier than it after arresting them by November 18, he stated.

In August, Bangladesh’s interim authorities stated that it could attempt these concerned within the killings through the current mass movement of the students against the Hasina-led government within the Worldwide Crimes Tribunal.

Over 230 folks had been killed in Bangladesh within the incidents of violence that erupted throughout the nation following the autumn of the Hasina authorities, taking the demise toll to greater than 600 because the huge protest by college students in opposition to a controversial quota system in authorities jobs first began in mid-July.