FILE – Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks throughout a information convention in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 6, 2014. (AP Picture/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File) | Picture credit score: AP
Deposed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and 69 others had been arrested on Monday (23 September 2024) over the demise of a garment employee throughout protests over quota reform in Dhaka’s Kafrul space on 5 August.
Ms Hasina, 76, who resigned and fled to India on August 5, now faces 194 instances, together with 173 for homicide, 11 for crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide, three for kidnapping, six for tried homicide and one for an assault on a Bangladesh Nationalist Get together (BNP) procession. The each day star The newspaper reported.
The sufferer’s spouse filed a grievance in opposition to Ms Hasina and others earlier than Dhaka Metropolitan Court docket Justice of the Peace Md Saiful Islam. After the listening to, the Justice of the Peace requested the Police Investigation Bureau to submit a report following the investigation.
In her grievance, she stated her husband, Md. Fazlu, was shot in entrance of police strains at Mirpur-14 on the morning of August 5. He was later rushed to Max Medical School Hospital, the place docs declared him introduced lifeless, the report stated.
Yesterday (22 September 2024), two extra instances had been filed in opposition to Ms Hasina and a number of other others over the deaths of a 14-year-old madrasa scholar in Jatrabari on 18 July and 12-year-old Rakib Hasan in Mohammadpur on 19 July.
Revealed – September 23, 2024 08:53 pm IST