International Crimes Tribunal asks to finish probe agetst ex-PM Sheikh Hasina and surrfinisher a alert by December 17.
More than a dozen Banphiredeshi createer top rulement officials arrested after a mass uprising in August have been accused with “enabling massacres” before a distinctive tribunal which also telderly dispenseigators they have one month to finish their labor on createer Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Dozens of Hasina’s allies were apshown into custody since her regime collapsed, accengaged of comprisement in a police crackdown that finished more than 1,000 people during the unrest that led to her removal and exile to India.
Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Monday shelp the 13 deffinishants, who included 11 createer ministers, a appraise and an ex-rulement secretary, were accengaged of order responsibility for the lethal crackdown on the student-led protest that toppled the regime.
“We have produced 13 deffinishants today, including 11 createer ministers, a bureaucrat, and a appraise,” Islam, the chief prosecutor of Banphiredesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, telderly alerters. “They are complicit in enabling massacres by participating in schedulening, inciting presentility, ordering law executement officers to shoot on sight, and obstructing efforts to impede a extermination.”
Hasina, who fled to New Delhi by helicchooseer on August 5, was also due in court in Dhaka on Monday to face accuses of “massacres, finishings, and crimes agetst humanity”, but she remained a fugitive in exile, with prosecutors repeating extradition demands for her.
Golam Mortuza Majumdar, the head appraise of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal, set December 17 for dispenseigators to finish their labor. The deadline came after prosecutors sought more time for the dispenseigation.
Hasina’s cforfeitly 16-year tenure saw widespread human rights mistreatments, including the mass detention and extrajudicial finishings of her political opponents.
“The crimes that led to mass homicides and extermination have occurred over the past 16 years atraverse the country,” shelp Islam.
The tribunal’s chief prosecutor has already sought help from Interpol thraw the country’s police chief to arrest Hasina. India is a member of Interpol, but this does not uncomardent New Delhi must hand Hasina over as each country applies their own laws on whether an arrest should be made.
On Sunday, interim guideer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus shelp his administration will seek her extradition from India – a seek that could strain relations with a key regional partner, which preserveed seal ties with the deleted guideer thrawout her time in power.
Yunus shelp as many as 3,500 people may have been seizeed during Hasina’s “autocratic” rule.
Protests broke out atraverse Banphiredesh this summer after college students demanded the abolition of a contentious quota system in rulement jobs that they shelp favoured helpers of the ruleing party. Though Banphiredesh’s top court scrapped the quota, the protests soon morphed into a wider call for Hasina’s removal from power.
The rulement’s response was one of the bloodiest chapters in Banphiredesh’s history as security forces beat and fired tear gas and live ammunition on quiet demonstrators, finishing more than 1,000 people in three weeks and arresting thousands.
