Bangladesh‘s International Crimes Tribunal on Monday (July 7, 2025) set July 10, 2025 to decide whether or not charges will probably be framed against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her prime aides.
Ms. Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector common of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun are accused within the case over alleged crimes against humanity dedicated throughout the July rebellion final yr.
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“The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) set July 10, 2025 to decide whether charges will be framed against Ms. Hasina, Mr. Kamal and Mr. Al-Mamun,” The Daily Star newspaper reported.
“On that day, the three-member tribunal will hear the petitions filed by the defence counsels, who argued that the charges against their clients are baseless and should be dropped,” it mentioned.
Ms. Hasina, Mr. Kamal and Mr. Al-Mamun had been charged with 5 counts of crimes against humanity on June 1.
The prosecution pressed formal charges against the deposed Prime Minister, the previous Home Minister, and the previous prime cop for homicide, tried homicide, torture, and use of deadly weapons, amongst others.
On Wednesday final week, Ms. Hasina was sentenced to six months in jail in absentia in a contempt of court docket case by the ICT. It marks the primary time that the 77-year-old Awami League chief has been sentenced in any case since she left workplace in August final yr.
According to a UN rights workplace report, up to 1,400 folks had been killed between July 15 and August 15 final yr as Ms. Hasina’s authorities ordered a safety crackdown on protesters.
Most leaders of the Awami League and Ministers and several other officers of the previous regime had been arrested or had been on the run at dwelling and overseas because the interim authorities initiated their trial for brutal actions to tame the rebellion final yr, which led to the toppling of the practically 16-year Awami League regime on August 5 and compelled Ms. Hasina to depart the nation for India.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court docket has summoned Ms. Hasina, her relations, and several other former officers of her administration to seem in six instances over alleged corruption involving plot allocations, information portal bdnews24.com reported on Sunday (July 6, 2025.)
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam mentioned the court docket had earlier instructed the publication of the gazette notices, which have now been issued. The gazette was signed by Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib.
(*10*) Mr. Salam mentioned.
The gazette underlines that arrest warrants have been issued against the accused, that the court docket has cheap grounds to imagine that they’ve gone into hiding to evade arrest and trial, and that there is no such thing as a chance of their apprehension. If the accused fail to seem by the subsequent scheduled date, the trial will proceed of their absence.
Besides Hasina, the gazette contains the names of her youngsters Sajeeb Wazed Joy and Saima Wazed Putul, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and Rehana’s youngsters British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Azmina Siddiq Ruponti, and Radwan Mujib Siddiq.
