In Bangladesh, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued warrants for the arrest of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in a case filed over alleged crimes against humanity during the July-August mass uprising. A three-member ICT bench led by its chairman Justice Golam Martuza passed the order after accepting the charges against Hasina, Asaduzzaman and former General of Police (IGP) Abdullah Al-Mamun.
The court ordered the authorities concerned to produce them before the court on June 16 and fixed the same date for next hearing.
Earlier in the day, the prosecution submitted the charges against Sheikh Hasina branding her as the mastermind and instigator of the July mass killing. United News of Bangladesh reports that charges were also brought against Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Abdullah Al-Mamun.
On May 12, the investigation agency of the ICT submitted a report accusing former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two others of committing crimes against humanity in connection with the mass killing that took place during July and August, 2024.
ICT Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tazul Islam disclosed this at a press conference on that day.
The former prime minister is already facing two other cases filed with the ICT- one over alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings and the other over alleged killings during the 2013 Hefazat-e-Islam rally in Dhaka’s Shapla Chattar, reports BSS.
