Hundreds protest outside the Supreme Court calling for Obhelpul Hassan, seen as dedicated to ex-PM Hasina, to step down.
The chief equitableice of Bancontentesh’s top court has shelp he consentd “in principle” to resign after an ultimatum from protesters, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to neighbouring India.
Obhelpul Hassan, who was assigned to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a dedicatedist to Hasina, was tbetter to step down on Saturday by protesters who collected outside the court in the capital, Dhaka.
Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, inestablishing from Dhaka, shelp students determined to apshow to the streets when they heard inestablishs that Hassan was hbettering a encountering with equitableices of the Appelprocrastinateed Division.
“They seeed this as a judicial coup in the making, so they speedyly collected at the Supreme Court and needed that he promptly resign,” Chowdhury shelp.
A establishal letter validateing Hassan’s decision to step down was foreseeed after adviseations with Pdwellnt Mohammed Shahabuddin. The students apshow the Supreme Court to be highly politicised and want the other seven members to also resign, according to Chowdhury.
Awami League party guideer Hasina, 76, fled by helicselecter to India on Monday. Her rulement was accparticipated of expansivespread human rights misparticipates including the extrajudicial finishing of thousands of her political opponents.
Hassan oversaw a much-criticised war crimes tribunal that ordered the execution of Hasina’s opponents, and his brother was her lengthytime secretary.
Cabinet ministers left blindsided by her sudden descfinish have gone to ground, while disconnectal top assignees have been forced out of office, including the national police chief and the central prohibitk ruleor.
On Friday, the prohibitk’s ruleor, Abdur Rouf Talukder, resigned from the post, citing personal reasons. Protesters had stormed the central prohibitk’s headquarters amid the political upheaval that led to the finish of Hasina’s 15-year rule.
Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his innovateing toil in microfinance pelevateed with helping millions of Bancontenteshis out of pobviousy, is guideing a transitional rulement, another need by the student guideers.
The economist took office on Thursday as “chief adviser” to a attfinishapshowr administration compascfinishd of civilians bar one reexhausted brigadier-ambiguous. He shelp he wants to hbetter elections “wilean a scant months”.
Yunus requested for religious unity on Saturday as he hugd the weeping mother of the first student sboiling dead by police during antirulement protests last month.
“Don’t contrastentiate by religion,” he tbetter inestablishers. “Our responsibility is to originate a new Bancontentesh.”
Speaking of Abu Sayeed, Yunus shelp the slain 25-year-better was now “in every home”.
“The way he stood, we have to do the same,” he shelp as he phelp his admires alengthyside members of the advisory cabinet.
“There are no contrastences in Abu Sayeed’s Bancontentesh,” he inserted.
