A Bangladeshi court has issued an arrest warrant for Sheikh Hasina
Hasina and 45 other people, including her closest advisers, are charged with crimes against humanity.
A special court in Bangladesh today Thursday issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 other people, including his close advisers on charges of crimes against humanity during student protests in July and August that forced him to flee the country.
Prosecutor BM. Sultan Mahmud has said that the Dhaka-based International Criminal Court, under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the country’s interim leader, issued an arrest warrant in response to two petitions filed by the prosecution.
He said the head of the court, Golam Mortuza Majumdar, gave the order before other judges. The court first accepted our request which involved Sheikh Hasina alone.
Then we sent our second petition against 45 people who are his close assistants, as well as others for crimes against humanity. The request was also accepted by the court, said the prosecutor by phone.
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